Former St Michael's School is a Grade II listed building in the Tandridge local planning authority area, England. School, apartment. 15 related planning applications.
Former St Michael's School
- WRENN ID
- sacred-cobalt-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tandridge
- Country
- England
- Type
- School, apartment
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former Church Missionary Society School, later a girls' school, now converted into apartments. It dates to 1886 and bears the initials "TD." Constructed of red brick in English bond with polychrome black bands and diaperwork, it features stone dressings and a tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles and brick chimneystacks.
The design comprises a central head teacher's house, known as Private House, facing the front, with an apsidal-ended Dining Hall and Chapel to the rear, and originally separate accommodation for boys and girls on either side. The building has three storeys and a basement; the Private House includes attics. The Private House has a gable on its left side with diaperwork, a stone oculus, and mullioned and transomed windows, some with trefoil heads, including a two-story bay on the lower floors. It has an arched doorcase with triple lancets above a fanlight, and a Caernarvon-arched doorcase. A clustered brick chimneystack is on the right-hand return. Set-back gables on the left and right have triple windows. Above the Private House is a prominent square tower with an elaborate wooden corbelled balcony, a spire with lucarnes, and a metal weathervane, alongside a smaller circular turret.
Attached to the right-hand side is the former boys' accommodation; a three-story and basement block with six bays, featuring second-floor half-hipped dormers with Caernarvon-arched windows, first-floor double arched windows, and ground-floor triple trefoil windows. This wing ends in a projecting gable with a triple window to the second floor and double windows to the lower floors. Attached to the left of the Private House is the former girls' accommodation, consisting of five set-back bays similar to the other wing but culminating in a penultimate tower bay with a spirelet featuring miniature lucarnes, and an end bay with a second-floor oriel. A deep plinth runs throughout the building. The rear elevation is similar, with a central five-bay deep apsidal-ended projection housing the Dining Hall on the ground floor and the Chapel above.
The interior includes a fine staircase within the Private House, featuring trefoil-arched balustrading and quatrefoil fretwork. Original fireplaces and wooden doors with stained glass panels are also present. Four stone staircases with cast iron panels are found throughout the building. The Dining Hall has a ceiling with roll-moulded panels. The Chapel features a barrel-vaulted roof, a rose window, and the central window of the apse retains original stained glass.
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