Former Entrance Gates and Piers to Spring Grove House (Now West Thames College)
FORMER ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS TO SPRING GROVE HOUSE (NOW WEST THAMES COLLEGE), LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088095
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Former Entrance Gates and Piers to Spring Grove House (Now West Thames College)
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS TO SPRING GROVE HOUSE (NOW WEST THAMES COLLEGE), LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088095
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Former Entrance Gates and Piers to Spring Grove House (Now West Thames College)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS TO SPRING GROVE HOUSE (NOW WEST THAMES COLLEGE), LONDON ROAD
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:
- FORMER ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS TO SPRING GROVE HOUSE (NOW WEST THAMES COLLEGE), LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hounslow (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 15185 76410
Details
787/0/10121 LONDON ROAD
09-AUG-02 Former entrance gates and piers to Spr
ing Grove House (now West Thames Colle
ge)
II
Former Entrance Gates and Piers, Spring Grove House, London Road
Elaborate wrought iron gates set between banded brick piers with short lengths of wall either side. C.1894. Double gates with an elaborate scrolled top, with cast iron cartouches to centres, over decorative scrolled bottoms; baluster finial to central post. Square hollow piers of matching railings, supporting Ionic capitals. Flanking doors on either side with matching overthrows. Outer piers of red brick with Portland stone bases, banding and capitals. The curved, upswept outer sections of walling have Portland stone coping.
HISTORY: part of the late Victorian embellishment of Spring Grove House, undertaken for the soap magnate Andrew Pears. Pears undertook major alterations to the house between 1892 and 1894; William Catherwood was his executive architect. These are highly elaborate gates in the fashionable Louis XV style.
SOURCE: Peter Rowlands, 'Spring Grove House: A History' (2001).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489671
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rowlands, P, Spring Grove House: A History, (2001)
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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