Royal Arsenal Rifle Shell Factory Gateway
ROYAL ARSENAL RIFLE SHELL FACTORY GATEWAY, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078915
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Arsenal Rifle Shell Factory Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL ARSENAL RIFLE SHELL FACTORY GATEWAY, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078915
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jul-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Arsenal Rifle Shell Factory Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL ARSENAL RIFLE SHELL FACTORY GATEWAY, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
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:
- ROYAL ARSENAL RIFLE SHELL FACTORY GATEWAY, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 44040 79210
Details
TQ 4479 PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
(North side)
786/9/362 Royal Arsenal
Rifle Shell Factory Gateway
08/06/73
GV II
Rifle shell foundry entrance gateway, offices and stores. 1856 by D Murray. Red brick with Portland stone dressings and a slate roof. Baroque Revival style. 2 storey; 3-window range. A fine entrance has paired Doric and superimposed Ionic columns to each bay, entablature and panelled parapet set forward to the columns; keyed round archways with architraves, larger to the middle, with fine elaborate cast-iron gates by Charles Bailey, 1857, cast at Grissel's Regent's Canal Iron Works. Round-arched keyed first-floor windows with stone pilasters, impost blocks and moulded architraves, and a central first-floor Venetian window. Returns have first-floor round-arched windows as the front. INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: Formed the entrance to a large ammunition factory. A fine and well-detailed Baroque composition, in a style usually associated with the early C20. Part of the mid C19 expansion of the iron ordnance production facility at the Arsenal.
(RCHME report, 1994)
Listing NGR: TQ4404079210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 200498
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968)
Historic Buildings Report in The Royal Arsenal Woolwich, (1994)
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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