THE BURLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL

THE BURLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL, BLINDMANS LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348430
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: THE BURLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: THE BURLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL, BLINDMANS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348430
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: THE BURLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: THE BURLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL, BLINDMANS LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE BURLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL, BLINDMANS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Broxbourne (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 35684 02512

Details

CHESHUNT BLINDMANS LANE

TL 3502 The Burleigh Primary 12/60 School. GV II

School. 1946. Hertfordshire County Council. Horizontal precast concrete panels; mono-pitched roof to deep eaves. Central hall with kitchens towards road, classroom block to south and 3 infants classrooms in staggered arrangement linked by corridors to the north, the latter comprising the earliest part of the school. Infants classrooms glazed away from road; each of 3 bays; wall to wall vertical windows to each bay; wall to wall glazing, divided horizontally by transom. Entrance to each of former infants classrooms to south side, beneath concrete canopies.

Attached ball of 1 tall storey, with very shallow pitched roof; 8 bays, 6 glazed to lower part of wall; continuous clerestory band beneath deep eaves. Block of 5 classrooms attached to south, in pairs except for end one, each' almost fully glazed away from road; 4-lights each. Service areas towards road.

The Burleigh school was the first school to be built on the influential Hertfordshire County Council system.

Listing NGR: TL3568402512

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 157527
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.