Bakers Almshouses
BAKERS ALMSHOUSES, LEA BRIDGE ROAD E10
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191128
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Bakers Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- BAKERS ALMSHOUSES, LEA BRIDGE ROAD E10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191128
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Bakers Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAKERS ALMSHOUSES, LEA BRIDGE ROAD E10
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:
- BAKERS ALMSHOUSES, LEA BRIDGE ROAD E10
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:
- TQ3763588096
Details
TQ 38 NE
2/22
27.9.71
LEA BRIDGE ROAD
Leyton, E10
(north side)
Bakers Almshouses
GV
II
Almshouses. 1857-66. By T E Knightley. Yellow brick, stone dressings, pitched
slate roof to eaves. Composed around 3 sides of open quadrangle. Eclectic
Italianate manner. Mainly 2 storeyed. Almshouses each 1 bay with gabled porch
shared with neighbour; decorative moulded entrances, panelled doors. Ground floor
windows, round-headed with rusticated gauged brick voussoirs. First floor windows
mainly square-headed, with stone architraves. Bracketed eaves. Tall panelled
chimneys, Italianate belvedere towers in each angle with low hipped roofs. Each wing
with central emphasis. Central block with centre 4 bays on larger scale with inset
clock, 2 corniced doorways, and gabled pavilions to either side with rusticated
quoins. Side wings with gabled centre and end pavilions more elaborate than intervening
units, those to centre with projecting balconied bay windows to first floor.
Side wings have symmetrical returns to road frontage, with paired gabled pavilions
and rusticated quoins. Rear elevation also of architectural interest.
Listing NGR: TQ3763588096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206913
- 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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