Telephone Exchange
Telephone Exchange, Gillmore Road, SE13
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192352
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Telephone Exchange
- Statutory Address:
- Telephone Exchange, Gillmore Road, SE13
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192352
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Telephone Exchange
- Statutory Address 1:
- Telephone Exchange, Gillmore Road, SE13
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:
- Telephone Exchange, Gillmore Road, SE13
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lewisham (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 38725 75166
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 January 2025 to amend details in the Description and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 3875
14/271
GILMORE ROAD SE13
Telephone Exchange
II
1909-1910 by Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes (1858-1925). Three storeys, four windows. Top storey appears to be a later addition in multicoloured stock brick with stone coped parapet and gauged brick arches to flush frame hinged windows with glazing bars. These rest on stone coping of original parapet. Two lower floors of multicoloured stock brick with red brick dressings, ie gauged brick window arches, window jambs, panels of banding between lst and ground floor windows; and angles of building. Flat, stone pilasters within angles rest on stone-coped plinth and rise through moulded stone cornice and stone-coped red brick parapet to end in small capitals. Flush framed sash windows with glazing bars. One storey, one-bay left entrance extension banded in red brick. Seven steps, with stone coped and banded side wall, to five-panel door under gauged red brick arch. Similar three-bay rear extension without pilasters or cornice.
Listing NGR: TQ3872575166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203286
- 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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