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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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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