DANSON PARK MANSION

DANSON PARK MANSION, DANSON PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1064225
Date first listed:: 01-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: DANSON PARK MANSION
Statutory Address:: DANSON PARK MANSION, DANSON PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1064225
Date first listed:: 01-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: DANSON PARK MANSION
Statutory Address 1:: DANSON PARK MANSION, DANSON PARK

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:: DANSON PARK MANSION, DANSON PARK

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Bexley (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 47273 75179

Details

DANSON PARK 1. 5005 Welling TQ 47 NE 2/9 Danson Park Mansion 1.10.53. I 2. This mansion was built by Sir Robert Taylor about 1765 for Alderman, later Sir, John Boyd and originally called Banson Hill. Wings were added later, which have since been demolished. The Park was laid out by 'Capability' Brown in 1761. The house is of Portland stone; the ground floor being rusticated. It has 3 storeys; the principal apartments being on the first floor. Heavy modillion eaves cornice. Slate roof. Windows in moulded architrave surrounds, with glazing bars intact; those on the first floor having projecting cornices over and panels of balustrading below. All 4 fronts are exposed, but the north and south fronts are slightly wider than the east and west fronts. The east, west and south fronts have a canted bay of 3 windows on all floors in the centre. The north front has a square central projection, with a pediment over containing a round window in the typanum. The entrance is on this side. Nineteen wide steps, with a balustrade on each side, lead up to the front door, on the piano nobile. This has engaged Corinthian columns, a modillion cornice and a vase over it between volutes and a medallion and swags between the architrave and the moulded surround of the door. The interior has a fine central oval staircase, with a gallery of 8 Ionic columns on the second floor and an oval dome above, and some fine rooms.

Listing NGR: TQ4727375179

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Legacy System number:: 198666
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

Legal

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