78, CLAPHAM COMMON SOUTH SIDE SW4

78, CLAPHAM COMMON SOUTH SIDE SW4

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1184253
Date first listed:
08-Feb-1979
List Entry Name:
78, CLAPHAM COMMON SOUTH SIDE SW4
Statutory Address:
78, CLAPHAM COMMON SOUTH SIDE SW4

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1184253
Date first listed:
08-Feb-1979
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Mar-1981
List Entry Name:
78, CLAPHAM COMMON SOUTH SIDE SW4
Statutory Address 1:
78, CLAPHAM COMMON SOUTH SIDE SW4

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
78, CLAPHAM COMMON SOUTH SIDE SW4

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Lambeth (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 29025 74589

Details

CLAPHAM COMMON 1. SOUTH SIDE SW4 5023 No 78 TQ 2974 21/207 8.2.79

II

2. 1888 dated on rainwater heads. Irregular house in freely-treated Tudor style with naive classical details, perhaps suggesting Elizabethan features. Two storeys and attic. Red brick ground floor with irregular darker diaper. Upper parts hung with fishscale tiles. High pitched tiled roofs with fishscale bands, fancy ridge tiles and elaborate terra-cotta finials. Two bays on main front, the left one gabled and with a 2-storey projecting square bay. Pedimented entrance, then octagonal tower at right with spire-like roof. Right return has 3 closely-set gables in centre and varying roof heights from left to right; also roll-moulded Tudor-arched entrance with label over. Eaves and door decorations of moulded brick. Good wrought iron screens to door and ground floor windows.

Listing NGR: TQ2902574589

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
204130
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of 78, CLAPHAM COMMON SOUTH SIDE SW4

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