Royal Arsenal Verbruggens House
ROYAL ARSENAL VERBRUGGENS HOUSE, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078957
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Arsenal Verbruggens House
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL ARSENAL VERBRUGGENS HOUSE, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078957
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Arsenal Verbruggens House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL ARSENAL VERBRUGGENS HOUSE, 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 VERBRUGGENS HOUSE, 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 43803 79021
Details
TQ 4479 PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
(North side)
786/9/48 Royal Arsenal
Verbruggen's House
08/06/73
GV II
House, later office. 1772-73, for Jan Verbruggen, Master Founder and his son Pieter, built by James Morris. Red Flemish bond brick with a slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys, cellar and attic; 4-window range. Entrance in the S end has a coped, truncated gable, ground-floor arcade of round arches linked by impost band, and a modillion cornice; rubbed brick flat arches to 6/6-pane sashes, a half-glazed door, and 3 attic windows, the middle one blind. Matching parapetted 4-bay left-hand return has 4 flat-headed 3/3-pane dormers, and window-less right-hand return. INTERIOR: without plaster and most fittings at time of inspection (March 1994), has a full-width entrance room with fixings for panelling set in the walls, a rear right-hand open dogleg stair with column-on-vase balusters, columns newel and ramped rail; rear ground-floor plain stone mantle piece with a late C19 cast-iron fireplace.
HISTORY: Verbruggen was Master Founder from 1770, and responsible for the reorganisation and extension of the nearby Royal Brass Foundry 1771. Later used to house the Ordnance Committee and Ordnance Board.
(de Beer, Professor Carel, The Art of Gunfounding, Rotherfiela, 1991; Wesley H, The Royal Arsenal@ A brief history, Lodon, 1987, p.9; Hogg O F G, The Royal Arsenal, Oxford, 1963, p.432)
Listing NGR: TQ4295478475
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 200490
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hogg, O F G, The Royal Arsenal, (1963), 432
De Beer, C, The Art of Gunfounding, (1991)
Wesley, H, The Royal Arsenal: A Brief History, (1987), 9
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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