Royal Dockyard. Police building at east side of entrance gateway

Royal Dockyard. Police building at east side of entrance gateway, Woolwich Church Street SE18

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1212404
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:
Royal Dockyard. Police building at east side of entrance gateway
Statutory Address:
Royal Dockyard. Police building at east side of entrance gateway, Woolwich Church Street SE18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1212404
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:
Royal Dockyard. Police building at east side of entrance gateway
Statutory Address 1:
Royal Dockyard. Police building at east side of entrance gateway, Woolwich Church Street SE18

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Royal Dockyard. Police building at east side of entrance gateway, Woolwich Church Street 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 42644 79133

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 April 2021 and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 4279
7/W64

WOOLWICH CHURCH STREET SE18 (north side)
Royal Dockyard. Police building at east side of entrance gateway

II
Mid C18 house. Two storeys, attic and sunk basement, three windows; with early C19 one window, set back right extension. High pitched roof, now felted, with three square dormers. Slated roof with one dormer to right extension. Multicoloured stock brick with cornice band and stone-coped parapet, first floor band and plinth. No bands in right extension. Gauged brick arches to recessed sash windows with glazing bars in stucco-lined reveals. Ground floor windows round arched with small side lights, giving an appearance of wide Venetian windows. Central six-panel door, the upper four panels glazed, with cornice head and radial fanlight, in small, modern, half-glazed wood porch. In right extension a plain door with radial fanlight. One storey, six bay link to entrance gate has open Doric loggia. Doors alternate with recessed sash windows with glazing bars. Painted brick wall. Parapet above
colonnade now rendered.

Listing NGR: TQ4295478475

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
396778
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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