August 2023 : Planning permission for redevelopment
23/1114/FUL - Synagogue site 31-33 Theobald Street. Plans to redevelop the whole site - demolishing the existing synagogue and a vacant building and erecting commercial space, a 4 storey building with 11 flats and a new synagogue. Plans to restore the listed building and use it as a nursery.
May 2021 :Old School House
The Old School House is on the list of Community interest.
Update May 2021:
The Chief Executive of the Synagogues has agreed to speak to our Membership Secretary, Pat Strack, regarding the preservation of this significant old building.
Built in 1896, with a school room and office, as the second national school for Borehamwood Village, it has huge community significance. A total of 66 pupils could at- tend up to 1914. This replaced an earlier school which became the ‘Mission Room’: now the Social Club. The building was also used for Elstree Parish Council Meetings.
The building is a red brick square with fish scale tile hung gable end to the main school hall, with a large window at one end and large inserted double doors at the other. The former projecting side wing, that was once the Headteacher’s office, has a boarded gable end next to the decorated chimney stack comprising a recessed door- way with a boarded door window with a sloping brick sill and brick headers above a recessed doorway with boarded door and brick headers above. There is a similar window to the side. Two single storey additions were made, each with a sloping roof.
The building is owned by the Federation of Synagogues Trust Ltd.
EBGBS would like to work with the owners to restore the Old School House to it’s fomer glory Rule 2a) Generally, to promote and safeguard rural and residential amenities and in particular to protect features of natural, architectural or historical beauty and interest.
See below two photos:
Left: Elstree Parish Councillors 1910
Right: Old School House 2020
The Old School House is on the list of Community interest.
Update May 2021:
The Chief Executive of the Synagogues has agreed to speak to our Membership Secretary, Pat Strack, regarding the preservation of this significant old building.
Built in 1896, with a school room and office, as the second national school for Borehamwood Village, it has huge community significance. A total of 66 pupils could at- tend up to 1914. This replaced an earlier school which became the ‘Mission Room’: now the Social Club. The building was also used for Elstree Parish Council Meetings.
The building is a red brick square with fish scale tile hung gable end to the main school hall, with a large window at one end and large inserted double doors at the other. The former projecting side wing, that was once the Headteacher’s office, has a boarded gable end next to the decorated chimney stack comprising a recessed door- way with a boarded door window with a sloping brick sill and brick headers above a recessed doorway with boarded door and brick headers above. There is a similar window to the side. Two single storey additions were made, each with a sloping roof.
The building is owned by the Federation of Synagogues Trust Ltd.
EBGBS would like to work with the owners to restore the Old School House to it’s fomer glory Rule 2a) Generally, to promote and safeguard rural and residential amenities and in particular to protect features of natural, architectural or historical beauty and interest.
See below two photos:
Left: Elstree Parish Councillors 1910
Right: Old School House 2020
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