120, WOODCOTE ROAD
120, WOODCOTE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067408
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 120, WOODCOTE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 120, WOODCOTE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067408
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 120, WOODCOTE ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 120, WOODCOTE 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:
- 120, WOODCOTE ROAD
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 28931 63671
Details
TQ 2863 WOODCOTE ROAD
No 120
795/34/10005
II
Gas company showroom and stores, later carpet showrooms. 1929-30 for the Croydon Gas Company by A Douglas Robinson in Spanish style. steel-framed with plastered exterior and hipped pantiled roof with brick chimneystacks with ceramic pots. Corner site with central part of the building set diagonally of two storeys with splayed corners, cornice of curved tiles and three 12-pane sash windows with decorated motif above central window. Ground floor accessed by large corner entrance with decorative architrave and coat of arms of Croydon Gas Company above and two radiating arms of showroom shop windows crowned by pantiles to the ground floor. This incorporates an archway to right hand side and also a pair of wooden gates with large L-shaped iron hinges. The plan had showrooms, shop and accounts on the ground floor and lecture hall and room settings on the first floor. Original interior features include stone staircase with iron handrail and tripartite round-headed staircase window with cable-moulded colonnettes, stone fireplace with panel and twisted columns, stone fireplace with pilasters, brackets and floral panel to former lecture hall, platform to former lecture hall, cast iron decorative skylight, original oak doors including ornate plaster mouldings, gas light fittings and sanitaryware. A showroom of similar style at Thornton Heath has been altered but Wallington has a more interesting plan.
["The Architect and Building News" June 61930.]
Listing NGR: TQ2893163671
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477097
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Architect and Building News in 6 June, (1930)
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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