40, BEECHES AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065699
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 40, BEECHES AVENUE
Statutory Address:: 40, BEECHES AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065699
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 40, BEECHES AVENUE
Statutory Address 1:: 40, BEECHES AVENUE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 40, BEECHES AVENUE

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 27481 63389

Details

BEECHES AVENUE 1. 4430 CARSHALTON BEECHES TQ 2763 33/246 No 40 II 2. 2 storey, 2-bay house built 1903-4 for Frank Dickinson [1874-1961] to his own design; he also designed and mostly constructed the fittings of the interior. Very plain exterior; roughcast walls and green slate roof; northern bay projects forward and is gabled with 4-light window above and 5-light splayed bay window below. Southern bay is constructed at right angles to it with the roof descending low over the porch; 4-light dormer above; door with handsome letter box and side lights below. Interior is furnished completely in the prevailing styles of the Arts and Crafts at that time. Painted doors in vestibule; ornate door handles. In living room/sitting room carved beams showing owl, squirrels and rabbits over bay window of living room; carved beam in centre bearing on one side the inscription "Serve Humanity the Gods we know not" and on the other side representations of a fox in vine tendrils. Fireplace in living room has a "round red brick arch with hand painted tiles, each side framing the arch, above is a copper panel in hammered relief depicting a landscape with setting sun .... the whole is framed in polished red pine"; surmounted by a painted triptych. Panelling. Panelled staircase balusters pierced with heart motif. Sitting room fireplace with a Tudor arch in red brick and similar hand-painted tiles; "panel over arch in moulded plaster representing dancing nymphs and piping pans"; painted triptych. In the principal bedroom a fireplace with "hammered steel framing with slightly raised ornament all hand-wrought .... over which is a plaster panel representing a group from the famous picture "The Sleeping Beauty" by Burne-Jones, and inscribed with the title "How they all Slept" .... depicting sleepers at a loom" .... "the whole scheme framed in polished pine." [Quotations taken from autobiography of Frank Diakinson]. Listed on account of interior fittings. Gate-posts ornamented with motifs in same style; wooden gate with "Little Holland House" carved in ornamental letters, decorated bird-bath.

Listing NGR: TQ2748163389

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Legacy System number:: 206676
Legacy System:: LBS

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