BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALL

BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALL, 23, LEE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213763
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALL
Statutory Address:: BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALL, 23, LEE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213763
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALL, 23, LEE ROAD

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:: BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALL, 23, LEE ROAD

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 39700 75856

Details

TQ 3975 BLACKHEATH LEE ROAD

786-0/45/10000 No 23

Blackheath Concert Hall

GV II

Purpose built concert hall. Built 1894 by Edmeston and Gabriel in Queen Anne style. Built of Leicester brick with some dressings and window mullions of terra-cotta and low-relief stucco decorative treatment in 'gesso duro' by Gilbert Seale of Walworth; Westmoreland slate roof. Plan comprises front block facing road with administrative and social rooms and small hall on 1st floor. At right angles, but not centred on the middle of the front, is the wing with the main hall, its gable sticking up over the roof of the Lee Road Block. Front of 2 storeys 7 windows. Ends have gables with ball finials and strapwork decoration including masks and musical instruments. Lowered double arched attic openings. 1st floor has round-headed windows with triple casements and stained glass above. Frieze between floors depicting tritons playing musical instruments. Ground floor has triple mullioned and transomed windows. Right side has open pedimented doorcase with large brackets, female mask in pediment and elaborate tented cast iron canopy on 2 cast iron columns. Some stained glass panels to Entrance Hall. Concert Hall interior of 9 bays with elaborate wooden ribbed ceiling, round- headed windows divided by pilasters and proscenium arch with open pediment with shield and panel with musical instruments flanked by console brackets.

This is believed to be the earliest surviving purpose-built concert hall in London.

Listing NGR: TQ3970075856

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Legacy System number:: 398399
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.