FAIRFIELD MATCH WORKS (BRYANT AND MAY)

FAIRFIELD MATCH WORKS (BRYANT AND MAY), FAIRFIELD ROAD E3

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065187
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: FAIRFIELD MATCH WORKS (BRYANT AND MAY)
Statutory Address:: FAIRFIELD MATCH WORKS (BRYANT AND MAY), FAIRFIELD ROAD E3

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065187
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: FAIRFIELD MATCH WORKS (BRYANT AND MAY)
Statutory Address 1:: FAIRFIELD MATCH WORKS (BRYANT AND MAY), FAIRFIELD ROAD E3

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:: FAIRFIELD MATCH WORKS (BRYANT AND MAY), FAIRFIELD ROAD E3

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 37299 83231

Details

TQ 3783 7/52

FAIRFIELD ROAD E3(East Side)Fairfield Match Works(Bryant and May)

GII Date stone 1874 but factory founded in 1861.Commended for the excellence of its working conditions as early as 1862.Administrative building of stock brick with red and bluc brick dressings.Brick and stone capped eave cornice.Roof not visible.Three storeys,fifteen bays width.Southern three bays and one to north of entrance have gothic arches containing first and second floor windows.Windows mostly unbarred sashes.Entrance asymmetrically placed.Pediment above alsightly advanced entrance block with central gothic arch.Clock in tympanum with stone shields and bas relief carving.Stone faced ground floor with entrance doors;flanking windows and decorative plaques with the firm's monogram etc.The buildings and wall of the listed part of Fairfield Match Works form a group important in both the social and economic history of Bow.

Listing NGR: TQ3729983231

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 205964
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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