Grotto and Flanking Walls at the Oaks
GROTTO AND FLANKING WALLS AT THE OAKS, CROYDON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065606
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Grotto and Flanking Walls at the Oaks
- Statutory Address:
- GROTTO AND FLANKING WALLS AT THE OAKS, CROYDON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065606
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Grotto and Flanking Walls at the Oaks
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROTTO AND FLANKING WALLS AT THE OAKS, CROYDON LANE
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:
- GROTTO AND FLANKING WALLS AT THE OAKS, CROYDON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Sutton (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 27479 61188
Details
1. CROYDON LANE 4430 WOODMANSTERNE Grotto and Flanking Walls at The Oaks TQ 2761 SW 42/254 TQ 2761 SE 43/254 II 2. Late C18 to Cl9. On south side, grotto set in central recess with high red brick rear and flanking walls. Two-light casement windows in the flanking walls, some with small panes; these light the two ranges of red brick, lean-to outbuildings with slate roofs which are built against the north side of the flanking walls. The north walls of the outbuildings have segementally headed windows, six panes wide and four deep with centre pivot lights; flat headed doorways. Flanking walls included on account of the grotto.
From late C18 to 1834, the Oaks was occupied by the Earls of Derby, their house at the Oaks having been substantially built in late C18 by the twelfth Earl who died in 1834. The house was demolished circa 1957-60. For a brief history of the Oaks estate, see Victoria County History for Surrey Vol IV, see entry in MHLG provisional list of 1953 for Carshalton VDj see also I Nairn, N Pevsner and B Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey (1971).
Listing NGR: TQ2747961188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206840
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey, (1912)
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
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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