Hockerill Residential School Bishop's Stortford, England

Listed Building Data

Hockerill Residential School has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1101605
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
11 July 1983
Name
HOCKERILL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
Location
HOCKERILL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, DUNMOW ROAD
Parish
Bishop's Stortford
District
East Hertfordshire
County
Hertfordshire
Grid Reference
TL 49584 21391
Easting
549584.0000
Northing
221391.0000

Listed Building Description

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  1. 5253 DUNMOW ROAD (North Side)

Hockerrill Residential School TL 42 SE:6/16

II

  1. Former Church of England Elementary Schoolmistresses' residential college by Joseph Clarke, 1852. Tudor Gothic style. Diaper patterned red brick walls with stone dressed doors and windows. Old red tile pitched roofs with Hampton Court style brick chimneys. Quadrangular plan, 2 storeys. West garden front, formerly entrance: 5 windows with central Tudor doorway beneath traceried, crenellated oriel retaining original latticework. Split level roof with stone coping. Mullioned and transomed ground floor windows and single first floor dormitory lights. It continues on south in 1 1/2 storeys. Porch and 2 windows, then U-plan, 5 window block facing south. Gable ends and large mullioned and transomed windows on south and west. Gabled porch on south-west corner. Main south front, now entrance, is 7 windows; 3 on east, a 1924 addition. Modern porch. East front has central projecting single storey chapel. 1878 by J Clarke. Plain red brick, steep red tile roof. Early English style, 4 lancets to sides and triad on east gable end. West gable has ornamental tiles and wooden belfry. Chapel interiors: open trussed rafter roof, stone sedilia, piscina and book recess. Organ loft over west end. Interior of quadrangle. Traceried tie beam ceiling in former assembly hall on west side. In north-east corner room is a late C19 large stone Perpendicular style fireplace. Late C19 additions on north-east of quadrangle. Modern cloisters. Good example of mid C19 college architecture. (Pevsner second Ed Rev (1977) 103).

Listing NGR: TL4958421391