Colbyfield
COLBYFIELD, NO 11, COPSE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1080858
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Colbyfield
- Statutory Address:
- COLBYFIELD, NO 11, COPSE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1080858
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Colbyfield
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLBYFIELD, NO 11, COPSE HILL
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:
- COLBYFIELD, NO 11, COPSE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Merton (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ2306370124
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/08/2012
TQ 2370
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LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON
COPSE HILL SW20
No 11 Colbyfield
II
House, now flats. 1861-2 by Francis Ganmer Penrose for himself. Built
of variegated brick, stone and pebble aggregate-faced concrete blocks,
with polychromatic effect achieved by alternating with single courses
of brick; stone quoins and dressings; hipped slate roof; brick stacks.
Rectangular plan. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range to front.
Galded porche with polychromatic brickwork has round window above
panelled door set within semi-circular arched architrave. Adjoining
extension of 1970s, housing staircase and additional porch. Stone
lintels over 2 margin-light sashes to right, and over 3 small lights
with wrought-iron grilles to left. Similar margin-light sashes with
raised brick quoining to sides and rear; angled return to left-side
wall has oriel with 2-light stone-mullioned window set above
polychromatic brick semi-circular arched doorway; 2-bay rear elevation
has square bay window and canted bay window with margin-light sashes,
both set over basement with semi-circular arched sashes. Interior;
remodelled in C20. Drawings survive in the RIBA drawings collection,
the Contract taken out by one Hull on 26 April 1862. F C
Penrose(1817-1903), educated at Winchester and Magdalene College,
Cambridge, was Travelling Bachelor of the University of Cambridge, in
Italy and Greece (1842-45) publishing his researches as two Letters
on certain anomalies in the construction of the Parthenon (the Society
of Dilettanti 1846/1847) and Investigations of the Principles of Athe-
nian Architecture: Optical Refinments in the Construction of Ancient
Buildings at Athens (1851; Second edition 1888, where he established
by optical observation and mathematical calculation the measurement of
the entasis of the order and the curvature of the lines of the
Parthenon. He was an Architect in practice from 1846, Surveyor of St
Paul's Cathedral from 1851 in succession to C R Cockerell, and in
1884, elected First Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He was in addition a noted archaeologist, astronomer and mathemati-
cian, and an overall phoymath for whom professional practice in archi-
tecture was something of a sideline. Included for its unusual use of
concrete blockwork as a building material early in the C19 and as an
unusual example of a High Victorian Architect designing a house for
his own use and occupation.
Sources: Charles Plante BA, Francis Cranmer Penrose, Architect (1817-
1903 unpublished BA Thesis (1987), University of Cambridge, Faculty of
Architecture and History of Art, (forthcoming in Journal of the Socie-
ty of Architectural Historians (USA).
Listing NGR: TQ2306370124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 205207
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, (1987)
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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