Water Pavilion at Carshalton House
WATER PAVILION AT CARSHALTON HOUSE, POUND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1183926
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Water Pavilion at Carshalton House
- Statutory Address:
- WATER PAVILION AT CARSHALTON HOUSE, POUND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1183926
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Water Pavilion at Carshalton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER PAVILION AT CARSHALTON HOUSE, POUND STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WATER PAVILION AT CARSHALTON HOUSE, WEST STREET
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:
- WATER PAVILION AT CARSHALTON HOUSE, POUND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WATER PAVILION AT CARSHALTON HOUSE, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Sutton (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 27714 64483
Details
WEST STREET 1. 4430 (West Side) CARSHALTON Water Pavilion at Carshalton House TQ 2764 SE 20/163 16.3.54. II* GV 2. Early C18, completed before 1721, probably to the design of Henry Joynes. One storey, with a square tower 3 storeys high. Ground floor is brown brick, red rubber brick dressings. West front 1-3-1 old round-headed sash windows with stone keystones, the centre 3 in full height projection. Angle piers with stone bases and fluted capitals. Plain frieze, band-cornice, tall parapet and moulded stone capping. The tower rises at the rear of the centre of this front and has a large open round arch with keystone and cill on brackets to each face. At the corners and rising just to the springing level of these arches are attached piers with stone cornice tops supporting flaming vases. Segmental cut out frieze of brick to top of tower, brick and stone bands, and stone capped diminutive Flemish gable style crenellations. Ornamental pyramidal corner finials with ball tops. All fronts of tower similar, all fronts of ground floor similar, North front is short, but South front, an orangery, has a long range of windows. Entrance hall in centre of East front with Vanbrughian ceiling supported on pendentives and with dome, room to North is Bath Room with original marble lined plunge bath, the walls lined completely with blue and mauve Delft tiles. Pump chamber with brick piers and arches, water channel and wheel - the water flows beneath the building (formerly into the lake) and is then pumped up into a tank at the top of the tower to feed the house and bathroom etc; original wheel removed 1960.
The Water Pavilion at Carshalton House and boundary wall to Carshalton House in West Street form a group with Nos 3 to 11 (odd) and No 15 West Street with Nos 2 to 12 and 18 to 24 (even) West Street and with The Old Rectory, Festival Walk.
Listing NGR: TQ2771464483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206806
- 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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