Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/11/2016

TL 46 SE
19/10004

ASCHAM ROAD
Roger Ascham School: Administration Building and Hall

II
Administration building and hall of open-air school. 1927 by G W Teasdale, borough architect. Red Flemish bond brick plinth and pebble-dash above with red brick dressings. Plain tile gable ended roofs. Brick axial stacks.

Plan: T-shaped plan; the front range contains staff and nurses rooms and kitchen to left of centre behind which is the large assembly hall wing.

Exterior: Single storey. Asymmetrical 2:2:2:3-bay front, the 2 bays to left of centre gabled with brick pilasters and brick round relieving arches over windows. Windows are cross-mullion transomed with glazing bars and casements. Glazed and panelled doors to left and right of centre bays with canopies on brackets. Thin-brick corner pilasters. The hall at rear has brick buttresses with set-offs between 3-light mullion transom windows with glazing bars and has 2 small fleche-like ventilators on ridge. Foundation stone to left of centre at front.

Interior: Hall is open to roof, the trusses with low collars and tie rods.

Listing NGR: TL4543660024

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616789

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)