Hallgate
HALLGATE, 1-26, BLACKHEATH PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033379
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hallgate
- Statutory Address:
- HALLGATE, 1-26, BLACKHEATH PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033379
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hallgate
- Statutory Address 1:
- HALLGATE, 1-26, BLACKHEATH PARK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HALLGATE, 1-26, BLACKHEATH PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 40076 75865
Details
TQ 4075 GREENWICH BLACKHEATH PARK
(South side)
786/46/10088
Nos. 1-26 Hallgate
GV II
Staggered block of 26 flats. 1958-9 by Eric Lyons for Span Developments Ltd. Brick crosswall construction with concrete facings, weatherboarding and panel infil to facades. Flat roofs. Three storeys. The accommodation grouped around five stairwells, that to Nos. 1-3 on west end; Nos. 16-20 in set-back range which incorporates passageway supported on drum columns leading through to The Hall, a slightlier earlier development not included in the listing. The flats of two or three bedrooms, in three types. Each entrance hall features glazed lobby with open well staircase and timber balustrade, the larger lobbies (not that to Nos.1-3) with horizontal panels of coloured glass at rear, and louvres on upper floor to entrance elevation. Otherwise this elevation (north) a regular rythmn of horizontal bands of glass panes and weatherboarding on north elevation, with flat panels below ground floor. The windows of timber with aluminium opening lights; a contrasting pattern of squares and rectangles, the longest rectangles divided by central glazing bar. Continuous incised fascia above upper storey windows. The south elevation has larger living room windows, dropped to floor height with sill bars continuing the horizontal line of the other glazing. The passageway to the Hall with stone flags and featuring a sculpture by Keith Godwin, 'The Architect in Society', commissioned to commemorate Lyons's planning battles with Greenwich council. According to Lyons, 'it depicts with rare and wry humour the architect's real position today under pressure on the one side by the needs of a society, on the other by the restrictions of planning authorities.' 'If it is not a good likeness, it is roughly the way I feel at times' (Architects' Journal, 10 September 1959, p.149; 8 October 1959, p.303). At Hallgate there was an argument with the LCC over the colour of paint for the development; he had two other planning decisions pending at the time, one of them the listed South Row flats.
The Hall development was the first by Lyons and Span to include both terraced housing and flatted accommodation. Hallgate shows a new sophistication in his flat design, to which its relationship to the earlier houses and the presence of the sculpture gives an added interest of the block as a gateway. The result is one of Lyons's best known works. (Architects' Journal: 10 September 1959: 149; Architects' Journal: 8 October 1959: 302-03; The Architect: July 1971: 36-8).
Listing NGR: TQ4012375878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471918
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architects Journal in 10 September, (1959), 149
Architects Journal in 8 October, (1959), 302-3
The Architect in July, (1971), 36-8
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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