GUNMAKERS COMPANY HALL AND PROOF HOUSE

GUNMAKERS COMPANY HALL AND PROOF HOUSE, 46-50, COMMERCIAL ROAD E1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1239992
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: GUNMAKERS COMPANY HALL AND PROOF HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GUNMAKERS COMPANY HALL AND PROOF HOUSE, 46-50, COMMERCIAL ROAD E1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1239992
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: GUNMAKERS COMPANY HALL AND PROOF HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GUNMAKERS COMPANY HALL AND PROOF HOUSE, 46-50, COMMERCIAL ROAD E1

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:: GUNMAKERS COMPANY HALL AND PROOF HOUSE, 46-50, COMMERCIAL ROAD E1

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 34133 81302

Details

COMMERCIAL ROAD E1 1. 4431 (South Side) Nos 46 to 50 (even) (Gunmakers Company Hall and Proof House) TQ 3481 15/468 II 2. No 46 Hall. 1872. Stock brick with stucco dressings. 2 storeys, 5 windows. Central entrance with coat of arms above. Court Room etc. Proof House. Nos 48 and 50. 1826. Robert Turner Cotton architect. No 48, brick bays marked by stone pilasters. Entablature and blocking course. 1 storey, 3 bays. Entrance in centre and 1 blank window each side. Blank attic above central bay. Doorway with architrave, consoles and segmental pediment. Paved yard at rear with proof sheds etc. No 50. Yellow stock brick with stucco cornice and blocking course. 3 storeys, 2 windows, recessed and arched on ground floor (see "Builder" 8.10.1920).

Listing NGR: TQ3413381302

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Legacy System number:: 205869
Legacy System:: LBS

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'The Builder' in 8 October, (1920)

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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.