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Albans (Girl's Hall of Residence), at Haileybury and Imperial Service College

A Grade II Listed Building in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7799 / 51°46'47"N

Longitude: -0.0357 / 0°2'8"W

OS Eastings: 535603

OS Northings: 210846

OS Grid: TL356108

Mapcode National: GBR KBZ.9T3

Mapcode Global: VHGPP.BJGF

Plus Code: 9C3XQXH7+WP

Entry Name: Albans (Girl's Hall of Residence), at Haileybury and Imperial Service College

Listing Date: 30 September 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1347788

English Heritage Legacy ID: 355823

ID on this website: 101347788

Location: East Hertfordshire, SG13

County: Hertfordshire

District: East Hertfordshire

Civil Parish: Hertford Heath

Built-Up Area: Hertford Heath

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Great Amwell with St Margaret's

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description


GREAT AMWELL COLLEGE ROAD TL 3510 (south side) Hertford Heath 14/9 Albans (girls' hall of residence), at Haileybury and Imperial Service College

GV II

Sanitorium, now a hall of residence. 1867, E wing 1894. A large 3-storeys polychrome Venetian Gothic building with hipped slate roofs, facing S. Symmetrical front with broad projecting wings and more elaborate projecting centre with 1-storey parapeted porch on front. Large square louvred cupola on top with gilded vane. Red brick walls with regular bands of dark brick. Offset plinth and moulded eaves band carried on stone corbels. Stone string courses at cill level on each floor and impost level to top floor. Paired lancets with Venetian arches with drip band and some voussoirs in dark brick. Recessed sash windows round headed on 2 upper floors but with roll-moulded lintel and herringbone brick tympanum on ground floor. Central projection has reserved corners with angle-stone at top: carved stone string to 1st floor at impost level, stone shafts with annulet, carved base and foliate capital in 3-light top window: and crocketed arched entrance with mosaic tympanum, carved brick arch with stone drip and imposts and nooks shafts. Doorway blocked as window. Later E wing in similar polychrome treatment without moulded stonework and with 3 grouped windows to each floor of projection. An impressive and elaborate Victorian school sanitorium.

Listing NGR: TL3560310846

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