Battle is joined to save Victorian schoolhouse

A campaign has been launched to save a Victorian primary school from demolition.

Plans have been put forward to replace 110-year-old Stonebridge School, in Shakepeare Avenue, Brent, with a new school and flats.

But conservation group the Victorian Society has added it to its register of endangered buildings and asked English Heritage to list the structure.

Conservation advisor Heloise Brown said the building, which hosts 200 pupils aged three to 11, was "one of the most complete late Victorian schools in the South-East, retaining its schoolmaster's house and original gates and railings to the playground."

Talks began 18 months ago over the future of the site. Plans are thought to include about 50 flats.