113 Blackheath Park Se3

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

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4412 BLACKHEATH PARK SE3 (North Side)

No 113 TQ 4076 39/173

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Early-mid C19, Large villa of 3 storeys, 3 windows. Moderately low pitched, hipped slate roof with deep eaves soffit. Yellow stock brick with stuccoed front. Centre and angles slightly set back. Centre windows on 1st and and floor 3-light. 2nd floor casements, 1st floor sash windows, all in plain reveals.

At ground floor centre a canted bay with pilasters, entablature and blocking course; and 3 round arched sash windows. Left andright windows full-length casements with transom, 3-light.

Left entrance return 4-bay, the left bay canted, full height. Sash windows on 1st and 2nd floors with cill bands. Long casements with transoms on ground floor in 2 left bays. Lower 3rd bay, defined by stuccoed quoins, has sash windows and 2nd floor cill band. All windows have stucco lined reveals. Entrance on ground floor with paired pilasters, entablature and blocking course. Modern double door with patterned radial fanlight, probably imported. Lower right bay blank with chimney. Inside, drawing-room has 2 original marble fireplaces and screen of fluted, square Corinthian columns, now blocked.

This house is said to have been the residence of John Stuart Mill in the 1860's during his activity for the Women's Emancipation Movement; and also, for an unspecified time, of Lord Aberdeen, the Prime Minister.

Listing NGR: TQ4053476210

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1506 IOE Records taken by Frances Ottaway; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Ms Frances Ottaway. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project