ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE PEPYS BUILDING

ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE PEPYS BUILDING, ROMNEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214382
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:: ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE PEPYS BUILDING
Statutory Address:: ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE PEPYS BUILDING, ROMNEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214382
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:: ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE PEPYS BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE PEPYS BUILDING, ROMNEY 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:: ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE PEPYS BUILDING, ROMNEY 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 38370 77870

Details

TQ 3877 ROMNEY ROAD (north side) 786-/26/10043 Royal Naval College "Pepys Building"

GV II

Former rackets courts, now laboratories. The western block 1874-5 by Colonel Clarke RE, the central screen and eastern part identical in design and added in 1882-3 by General Pudsey RE to form a symmetrical composition. Converted to laboratories in c.1906. Stone and stuccoed facades, roof hidden by high parapets. Seven-bay screen with higher two-bay ends. Tuscan pilasters across screen break forward into pairs of Ionic columns set between engaged columns with fluted capitals, all these in antis under projecting parapets at ends. The parapets are elaborate, with raised centrepieces supported on swags and urns set on high and elaborately carved plinths as cornerpieces; all this decoration the work of C R Smith. Rusticated ground floor. At first-floor height busts in high relief set in roundels depict from east to west: Anson, Drake, Cook, Howard, Blake, Benbow, Sandwich, Rodney, Duncan, Collingwood, Howe, Nelson and St Vincent. Nine-bay side elevations and three-bay rear also denoted by pilasters, the ground floor rusticated under fluted frieze and with empty first-floor roundels. Above these a deep frieze and an attic storey also broken into bays by short pilaster strips. Source: PRO ADM 195/47, 20-24

Listing NGR: TQ3837077870

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Legacy System number:: 399181
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.