Bryant and May Factory, Main Building
BRYANT AND MAY FACTORY, MAIN BUILDING, FAIRFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065761
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bryant and May Factory, Main Building
- Statutory Address:
- BRYANT AND MAY FACTORY, MAIN BUILDING, FAIRFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065761
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bryant and May Factory, Main Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRYANT AND MAY FACTORY, MAIN BUILDING, FAIRFIELD ROAD
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:
- BRYANT AND MAY FACTORY, MAIN BUILDING, FAIRFIELD ROAD
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:
- TQ3737783243
Details
FAIRFIELD ROAD
I.
4431
TQ 3783 7/200 Bryant and May
Factory, main
building
II
GV
2.
Match factory 1909-10. Designed by Messrs Holman and Goodsham. Red brick; low
pitched roof. Concrete (?) frame. 5 storeys, with 2 tall towers of 10 stages.
L-shaped block enclosing 2 attached low wings and a tall circular chimney.
Plaster strips rising from ground to brick cornice between each bay. Segmental
headed windows with metal framed windows; small panes. Square tower to each
wing containing staircases and water storage tanks for original built in sprinkler
system; narrower segmental windows; top stage corbelled out.
An impressive building embodying the environmental requirements desirable for
the manufacture of matches.
Listing NGR: TQ3737783243
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206482
- 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.
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