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Legend is barely readable, but then you know anyway!
Link to slightly better high resolution version is underneath.

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Thank you for this, Lonely Wolf!

Looking at the layout... I think it's a great shame that the Art School was demolished! It was a lovely 30's building which would have made a gorgeous house. Furthermore, it didn't deserve to be pulled down! :roll: Only good things happened in the Art School!
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Courtesy of Google Maps, please note that their terms are "personal, non-commercial use only", in case anyone was thinking of flogging copies to OBs.

I've included the station at the very top centre, and the Dolphin can also be identified.

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Drawn digitally from a hand copy of sketch plans in Hertford museum, donated by someone in 4s 1969-76.

A note said "1974? Later, wardrobe rooms were refurbished as housemistress flat, and wardrobe went into [old housemistress'] bedroom".

Edit 1-2:
- Added legend for Housemistress sitting room / office as advised by MKM (blank on original).

Edit 3-6:
- Altered baths/sinks/loos/front room area, thanks to MaryB's advice.
- Added legend for maid's or housemistress' guest room ("bedroom?" on original), differentiated airing and wardrobe rooms and resized them, and noted scullery, all based on Jo's posts elsewhere.
- Enlarged LVI study at expense of tuck room based on various evidence.
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Fascinating. It must from the other side of the square to sixes, because it is a mirror image. The ground floor room underneath the house mistress's bedroom was her sitting room/office. We didn't have a Vth form table, and the tuck room was called something different - can't remember what.
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Yes, that's 1's-4's but not 2's 'cos we didn't have a Vth form table either. Little study also housed the piano and doubled as a music room.

Incidentally, when I was Lower VIth we only had one Upper Sixth and there were only 2 of us in Lower VI so we were all in the big study. Vth form tried to appropriate the little study but they weren't allowed to.
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One side of the square - and I should definitely know which it was - had tuck room and Little Study the same size: the other had a narrower tuck room and a bigger LS. Our table lay out was different in 3s - two parallel tables at the hall end, with a 6th form table at the far end, also parallel, not the open square formation shown here. Housemistress sat at the door end of the right hand table.

Also, I think the airing room and single bedroom extended to the side wall in front: the 2 loos on each floor ("down the end" in 3s) were sandwiched between the other rooms and the bathrooms: there was a sink on the left and two doors immediately in front of you as you turned the corner, with the airing room/bedroom door on your right. Lots of brass here - copper pipes to the ceiling over the sink had to be cleaned, plus brass taps, moulded decorative bolt mechanisms and door handles on the loo doors.

Oh and while I think of it (how sad is this?) the bathroom basins were also partitioned and curtained off (for use on non-bath nights: either Tues, Thurs, Sat or Mon, Wed, Fri (list posted outside each bathroom)- and no-one was supposed to have a bath on Sunday unless you were a 6th former "sleeping in" and missing breakfast - permitted once a term), and the second or third one along had a shower attachment for hair washing. No other showers anywhere at all. When I feel strong enough I will post about hair washing and the scars that it - or rather its forbiddenness - have left on my soul.....
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Yes Mary, that is our side of the square, so obviously 1's or 4's. And you are correct about the loos, I hadn't noticed that. Many a night I sat in there finishing my needlework, leaping up to turn off the light when I heard Fanny's sitting room door open.
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The fact that it was donated by someone in 4s is perhaps a bit of a clue?
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Last one, single sheet A4 plan

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4th year now, so up to 2nd floor to bag that room ...
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