Former Wycliffe Congregational Church

Former Wycliffe Congregational Church, Cranbrook Road, Ilford

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081026
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1978
List Entry Name:: Former Wycliffe Congregational Church
Statutory Address:: Former Wycliffe Congregational Church, Cranbrook Road, Ilford

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Date:: 1999-09-11
Reference:: IOE01/01174/10
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081026
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1978
List Entry Name:: Former Wycliffe Congregational Church
Statutory Address 1:: Former Wycliffe Congregational Church, Cranbrook Road, Ilford

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Former Wycliffe Congregational Church, Cranbrook Road, Ilford

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Redbridge (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 43359 86986

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 February 2021 to amend the name and address, construction date, architects' names, and amend change of use of building. Also to reformat the text to current standard

TQ 48 NW 5/26 TQ 4386 15/26

Ilford CRANBROOK ROAD Former Wycliffe Congregational Church

(formerly listed as Ilford Playhouse)

31.1.78

II 1906-7, by Smee and Houchin. Art Nouveau Gothic. Red brick and yellow terracotta. West front with wide centre gable and large tripartite window. Short square tower on right side with corner buttresses and crenellated parapet. Windows with characteristic leaded art nouveau patterns. Used as an amateur theatre (The Cranbrook Theatre, later The Ilford Playhouse) between 1970 and 1984, when the building was converted into offices. Converted into residential use in 2016

Listing NGR: TQ4335986986

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Legacy System number:: 204806
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.