Description

TQ 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD SANCTUARY, SW1
101/17 (ABBEY PRECINT
AND WESTMINSTER SCHOOL)
24.2.58
17 Dean's Yard

G.V. I

Westminster School headmaster's house. Late C.18 rebuild of
monastic-school buildings. Yellow stock brick, slate roof. 3 storeys,
basement and dormered attic. 4 windows wide with 2 blind windows flanking
left hand tripartite window. Entrance to left with panelled door and blind
"side lights" framed by architrave pilaster strips with roundel capping
blocks, moulded cornice doorhead and semicircular fanlight overall with
delicate radial glazing patter; small doorway with fanlight adjoining.
Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches, stone sills. Parapet
with stone coping. Cast iron geometric pattern balcony across 1st floor.
Cast iron area railings with urn finials, flanking lamp brackets and link
extinguishers. Interior retains most of original mouldings, cornices etc.,
and good original geometric staircase with wrought iron balustrade.

R.C.H.M.
Westminster School; L.E. Tanner.

Listing NGR: TQ3001479357

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527086

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)