120,120A AND 120B, OCTAGON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1030155
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: 120,120A AND 120B, OCTAGON ROAD
Statutory Address:: 120,120A AND 120B, OCTAGON ROAD

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Date:: 1999-10-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1030155
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: 120,120A AND 120B, OCTAGON ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: 120,120A AND 120B, OCTAGON ROAD

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 120,120A AND 120B, OCTAGON ROAD

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Elmbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 09290 62545

Details

TQ 0962 BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE OCTAGON ROAD

Whiteley Village

10/305 Nos. 120, 120a and 120b

GV II

Almshouse group. Circa 1912. Red brick with rusticated quoins. Plain tiled swept hipped roof with rusticated end stacks. Single storey with attic under central thermal dormer. Central block at an angle to the octagon with end projections canted at 22½ degrees from the main block. Irregular 7 casement window front with entrance in left and projection. Whiteley Village was provided by William Whiteley of Whiteley's stores for thrifty old folk and was laid out on an octagonal plan by Frank Atkinson, employing leading architects of the day. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND (1971) pp520-1.

Listing NGR: TQ0929062545

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Legacy System number:: 286874
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 520-1

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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.