Chestnuts House
CHESTNUTS HOUSE, 398, HOE STREET E17
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191062
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnuts House
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTNUTS HOUSE, 398, HOE STREET E17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191062
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnuts House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTNUTS HOUSE, 398, HOE STREET E17
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:
- CHESTNUTS HOUSE, 398, HOE STREET E17
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Waltham Forest (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3747988427
Details
TQ 38 NE
2/12
19.10.51
HOE STREET
Walthamstow, E17
(west side)
No 398(Chestnuts House)
(formerly listed as No 398, Essex Technical College)
GV
II*
Substantial detached house. 1745-7 (dates to lead rainwater heads). Stock brick,
red dressings. Pitched tiled roof to parapet. 2 storeys and attic storey. To Hoe
Street 7 bays with further recessed bay to right and additional wing beyond. Centre
3 bays more closely spaced than others, and set forward slightly with pediment. Cen-
tral pedimented doorcase, early C19, stucco with Doric pilasters. Late C20 door.
Brick band between storeys; main cornice of rubbled brick above first floor; subsi-
diary cornice to attic. Segmental-headed windows, sashes, thick glazing bars. Blind
semicircular window above pediment to attic. Six-bay, 2-storey wing recessed to
right, with similar treatment and advanced stable wing attached to right of 3 bays
with blind relieving arches. Original plan form survives. Interior: Paved stair
hall; fine openwell staircase with turned balusters and stucco floral enrichment.
Original panelling and cornices survive throughout, moulded to main rooms and simpler
to servants' area, which also has dog-leg turned baluster staircase. Room to left of
entrance with rich Rococo ceiling.
Listing NGR: TQ3747988427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206902
- 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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