Description

CAMDEN

TQ3082SW TAVISTOCK PLACE
798-1/95/1591 (North side)
14/05/74 No.9
Mary Ward Centre and attached
railings

GV II

School for handicapped children, now social centre. c1903. By
Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Brewer. For the Passmore Edwards
Settlement, later called the Mary Ward Settlement. Red brick
with slated, hipped roof and dormers. Rectangular plan with
projecting wings to main, east, facade in courtyard facing
former Mary Ward Settlement (qv). Neo-Georgian style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 11 windows. Single storey
entrance extension to Tavistock Place. Entrance facade with
slightly projecting bay; bracketed hood to 2-leaf doors. Above
the hood, a lunette with brick relief keystone and radiating
strips. Bay flanked by narrow, vertically set flush sashes
with exposed boxing and brick sills. Stone capped parapet, set
back from which, top storey of the school; 3 similar sashes
under a modillion cornice.
East facade of school symmetrical; central, slightly
projecting, brick porch with plain bracketed canopy over
recessed doorway. Above the canopy, a fanlight with radiating
brick relief strips. Gauged brick flat arches to flush sashes
with exposed boxing. Beneath the central sash on each wing, a
wooden door with glazing bars to the level of the flanking
windows' sills. Projecting, stone modillion cornice. Central
dormer of Palladian window type with date 1903 on enriched,
blind centre panel. Entrance extension with 2 sashes and stone
capped parapet. Decorated lead rainwater heads.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron area railings of
rectangular bars set diagonally with splayed tops and posts of
bars bent and riveted to form an arch.

Listing NGR: TQ3003282380

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086398

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