BAKERS ALMSHOUSES

BAKERS ALMSHOUSES, LEA BRIDGE ROAD E10

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191128
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1971
List Entry Name:: BAKERS ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: BAKERS ALMSHOUSES, LEA BRIDGE ROAD E10

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Date:: 1999-08-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191128
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1971
List Entry Name:: BAKERS ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: BAKERS ALMSHOUSES, LEA BRIDGE ROAD E10

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 206913
Legacy System:: LBS

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