Purley Bury
PURLEY BURY, LEXINGTON COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188809
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Purley Bury
- Statutory Address:
- PURLEY BURY, LEXINGTON COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188809
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Purley Bury
- Statutory Address 1:
- PURLEY BURY, LEXINGTON COURT
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:
- PURLEY BURY, LEXINGTON COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Croydon (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32330 61987
Details
1. 5009 LEXINGTON COURT (off Purley Bury Avenue)
Purley Bury TQ 36 SW 5/25
II
2. C18 house with later additions. Two-span. Rendered. Two storeys. Three sash windows. C19 porch. Slated mansard roof with 2 dormers. South front of 3 unequal bays with French window to ground floor and sashes above. Two bay extension to east with projecting canted bay window to ground floor with slated roof. Extensive range of C18 and C19 outbuildings to east. Red brick (colourwashed). Old conservatory on sough side with curved glazed roof. John Horne Tooke, politician and writer, and author of "The Diversions of Purley", lived here.
Listing NGR: TQ3233061987
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 201220
- 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.
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