CAMBERWELL POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED LAMP BRACKET

CAMBERWELL POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED LAMP BRACKET, CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378397
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: CAMBERWELL POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED LAMP BRACKET
Statutory Address:: CAMBERWELL POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED LAMP BRACKET, CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378397
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: CAMBERWELL POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED LAMP BRACKET
Statutory Address 1:: CAMBERWELL POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED LAMP BRACKET, CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET

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

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: CAMBERWELL POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED LAMP BRACKET, CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ3267476716

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3276 CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET 636-1/11/125 (South side) Camberwell Police station and attached lamp bracket

II

Metropolitan police station. Dated 1898. By John Dixon Butler. Red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings; dark red brick plinth to ground floor. Roof of tile. Arts and Crafts Free Style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. stepping up to 3, over basement. 6-window range. All openings are flat-arched, most with sashes and doors of original design. Elevation designed with deliberate asymmetry. The entrance just to the left of the centre; with overlight; set in aedicule consisting of quoined jambs topped by scroll brackets which support a semicircular pediment which dies into a short cornice along the front wall. Ground floor banded in stone and brick. Single window to left of entrance with eared architrave; to right a triple, transomed window treated as a shallow segmental bay, each light divided by stone mullions, the whole set in an elliptical-arched recess. The arch, which has a scalloped chamfer, is banded, the keystone treated as a scroll pediment intersecting the moulded sill band to 1st floor. Left-hand of design finishes as a low wing of 2 windows, with parapet; the right-hand ranges rise to a 2nd storey which finishes in a facing gable, the left return of this inset repeats materials of effects of the main elevation. The 1st-floor windows in the gable facing range are closely paired, each with eared and shouldered architraves. Sill band to 2nd-floor windows with brick and stone bands linking heads and lintels; gable pierced by long light slit, stopping just within stone peak; gable coping is moulded. High moulded stacks to party walls and at join of gable facing roof with rear. Projecting from the plain tympanum over the entrance is a metal floral bracket supporting a lamp of Windsor type with crown top. Rainwater heads at party walls have date in Gothic script, "1898". On the left jamb of the door, initials "MP" and the date. INTERIOR: not inspected.

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Legacy System number:: 470698
Legacy System:: LBS

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