Stone House
STONE HOUSE, 281, LEWISHAM WAY SE8
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193368
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Stone House
- Statutory Address:
- STONE HOUSE, 281, LEWISHAM WAY SE8
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193368
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Stone House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STONE HOUSE, 281, LEWISHAM WAY SE8
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:
- STONE HOUSE, 281, LEWISHAM WAY SE8
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 37265 76251
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/10/2012
TQ3776 8/D14
4424
5.7.50
LEWISHAM WAY SE8
(North-east side)
No 281 (Stone House)
GV II*
Villa. c.1771-3 by George Gibson the Younger for himself. Brick core with Kentish ragstone
facing, with stone banding, window surrounds and quoins; hipped slate roof. Parapet lowered
and rear bay extended c.1930. Two storeys with set-back attic, which incorporates hidden
chimneys. Square plan at angle to road, each side five bays wide, with first floor tetrastyle
logia over built out ground floor, bow windows on returns. Ground floor entrance hall with
first-floor piano nobile. At ground floor angles stout buttresses curved out at base. All
windows with glazing bar sashes, round-headed to first floor, flat-headed to ground floor.
Road front first floor blank but for three round-headed windows in bow; four ground-floor
windows. South-east entrance front has five windows, three in centre bay, the middle one
higher. Four-panel door well set back in moulded wood architrave with cornice over.
North-west front with loggia; columns with capitals formed of leaves and florets, as also used
by Gibson in his St Mary's church, Lewisham (q.v.). Wrought-iron railings to loggia and
wrought-iron screens to heads of round-arched first-floor windows.
The interior is particularly interesting. Ground-floor entrance leads to circular vestibule,
flanked by two small square rooms, one leading to the old kitchen and pantry. Some original
shelving and latticed partitions survive; doors have been moved and rehung. Vestibule also
gives on to tight, top-lit octagonal staircase with vaulted ceiling and skylight. The sides of
the stairwell have raised panles and roundels containing, in low relief, neo-classical busts of
the Hanoverian kings. Principal flight leads to first-floor piano nobile, a secondary stair
continues to the attic bedrooms; both have wrought-iron balusters and a mahogany handrail.
Patterned stone sets to floors on ground and first floors. First floor has principal drawing
rooms: a circular space separated by open Ionic columns from two square spaces with vaulted
ceilings. Domed and fluted ceiling, with some mid-C19 decoration, but with Adamesque,
arabesque decoration to surrounding frieze late C18. Handsome marble fireplace with
cast-iron firebacks. Adjoining rooms also with good late C18 fireplaces, panelled double
doors and dadoes.
'A very personal interpretation of the villa form that had been revived by Chambers and Taylor in
the 1750s', Cherry and Pevsner, 'The Buildings of England, London South', 1983, p. 411.
Listing NGR: TQ3719476292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 2: South, (1983), 411
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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