ROYAL ARSENAL MAIN GUARDROOM

ROYAL ARSENAL MAIN GUARDROOM, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210926
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: ROYAL ARSENAL MAIN GUARDROOM
Statutory Address:: ROYAL ARSENAL MAIN GUARDROOM, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210926
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: ROYAL ARSENAL MAIN GUARDROOM
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL ARSENAL MAIN GUARDROOM, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

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:: ROYAL ARSENAL MAIN GUARDROOM, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Greenwich (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 43744 79030

Details

TQ 4479 PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18 (North side)

786/9/45 Royal Arsenal Main Guardroom 08/06/73

GV II

Guard house, disused. 1788, built by Isaac Ashton, possibly to designs of James Wyatt. Yellow and red stock brick with limestone ashlar, ridge stacks and hipped slate roof. Single-depth plan with central archway. 2 storeys; 3-bay range. A tetrastyle Doric portico 1 bay deep with a modillion cornice, to a similarly-sized flagged recess, a central doorway with double 6-light doors with raised panels, and smaller ones to the guard houses each side. Segmental-arched ground-floor tripartite 6/6-pane sashes, and gauged brick flat heads to first-floor 6/6-pane sashes with ashlar cill band. Rear has projecting wings each side of the central entrance. INTERIOR: has cast-iron posts. HISTORY: Used by the Army when it provided guards for the site, and an important part of the C18 Arsenal. (Wesley H, The Royal Arsenal: a brief history, London, 1987, p10; RCHME report, 1994)

Listing NGR: TQ4374479030

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Legacy System number:: 200484
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wesley, H , The Royal Arsenal: A Brief History, (1987), 10
'Historic Buildings Report' in The Royal Arsenal Woolwich, (1994)

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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.