St Margarets House

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OLD FORD ROAD E2 51/3583 (north side)

5/199 No 21 (St Margaret's 27.9.73 House) and attached Chapel

II GV

The description shall be amended to read:-

House and attached chapel. Built 1753 by Anthony Nott, Carpenter; remodelled in 1903; rear wing built 1903 as clubroom and bedrooms by a Mr Williams and chapel built 1904 by Paul Waterhouse. Flemish bond brick with late C19 stucco to front; hipped slate roofs; hipped plain tile roof to rear wing; brick ridge stacks, and lateral stacks to rear wing. Double-depth plan with rear wing making L-plan with rear right wing. 3 storeys with basement; 7-window range. Bracketed pediment over late C19 six-panelled door with fanlight set in moulded wood architraves. Flat rendered arches over horned 12-pane sashes and tall 18-pane sashes to first floor on left above inserted 3-light window with central door, all of c.1903; heavy coved cornice above first-floor windows. Rear wing of 2-storey, 7-window range has semi-circular arches over large ground-floor windows, including 3-bay projection, and first-floor casements with glazing bars. Interior: panelled doors; fine dog-leg staircase with turned balusters set on closed string and with panelled dado; first-floor room to right has mid C18 panelling, moulded cornice and eared architrave with dentilled cornice to fireplace with ducks nest grate. Rear wing of 1903 has moulded cornicing to ground-floor beams, and first-floor bedrooms with bolection-panelled overmantles and bolection-moulded architraves to fireplaces with Delft-tile surrounds. Subsidiary features: small chapel, built of brick with gabled plain tile roof, attached by short brick wall to rear; west gable end has gauged red brick semi-circular arch over panelled double doors with bracketed flat hood and glazing bars to overlight, and fine glazed terracotta memorial to P R Buchanan in the style of Della Robbia with Annunciation scene set in enriched semi-circular frame. Interior: fine 3-bay rood screen, in white painted wood with gilding, has 4 octagonal Ionic columns to entablature which is swept above triple keystone set in semi-circular arched entry and surmounted by statues of Christ on the Cross flanked by St Mary Magdalene and St John; gallery to west end; plaster barrel vaulted ceiling with raised ribs to continuous cornice and console brackets; fine stained glass to north namely St Mary by Powells and SS Margaret, Mildred and Cecilia by Heaton, Butler and Payne; various memorial tablets. St Margaret's House was established in 1889 as a residential settlement engaged in social work in Bethnall Green, and moved to No. 21 in 1903.

----------------------------------------------- OLD FORD ROAD E3 1. (North Side) 4431 No 21 (St Margaret's House) 51/3583 5/199 II GV 2. C18 early. Stuccoed facade with brick and tile coping to parapet above 2nd floor. Hipped pantiled roof. 3 storeys and basement. 7 windows in groups of 2, 3 and 2, recessed sashes with glazing bars. Entrance door similar to Nos 17 and 19 with fanlight and replaced pedimented hood on brackets. Interior has good panelled rooms.

The Terrace, No 5 (Netteswell House) and Nos 15 to 21 (odd) form a group with the Church and Priory of Our Lady of the Assumption, Victoria Park Square.

Listing NGR: TQ3505183012

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