Coombe Cliffe Conservatory
COOMBE CLIFFE CONSERVATORY, LONDON ROAD SE23
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1080773
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Coombe Cliffe Conservatory
- Statutory Address:
- COOMBE CLIFFE CONSERVATORY, LONDON ROAD SE23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1080773
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Coombe Cliffe Conservatory
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOMBE CLIFFE CONSERVATORY, LONDON ROAD SE23
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:
- COOMBE CLIFFE CONSERVATORY, LONDON ROAD SE23
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lewisham (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3485673153
Details
LONDON ROAD, SE23
TQ 3473
Coombe Cliffe
22/301 Conservatory
30.6.72 II
Conservatory. Built 1894 for Frederick Horniman. Cast-iron and glass: decorative ironwork by Macfarlane and Company of Saracen Foundry, Glasgow. Cruciform plan. Doorways set in centre of two end walls and in transept ends; decorative porch with semicircular arched doorway to south transept. Walls framed by Corinthian columns with lower band and rosette panels and foliate frieze with tendrils; fish-scale roof frame, with acroteria to corners of upper roofs and antefixae and finials to lower roofs; octagonal lantern to central crossing, surmounted by pyramidal roof and weathervane. Interior: rope-twist columns with foliate spandrels to central dome. Moved from its original site at the Horniman home, Combe Cliffe, to its present site next to the Horniman Museum in 1988. A fine example of a Victorian cast-iron conservatory.
N.B. This building was previously listed in the 29 TH list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest in the London Borough of Croydon.
Listing NGR: TQ3485673153
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 203472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
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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