Clortecnic No 20 (Clortecnic) With Attached Wall and Outbuildings
CLORTECNIC, 20, PYRCROFT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242418
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Clortecnic No 20 (Clortecnic) With Attached Wall and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- CLORTECNIC, 20, PYRCROFT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242418
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Clortecnic No 20 (Clortecnic) With Attached Wall and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLORTECNIC, 20, PYRCROFT ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- NO 20 (CLORTECNIC) WITH ATTACHED WALL AND OUTBUILDINGS, 20, PYRCROFT ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CLORTECNIC, 20, PYRCROFT ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- NO 20 (CLORTECNIC) WITH ATTACHED WALL AND OUTBUILDINGS, 20, PYRCROFT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Runnymede (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 03855 66501
Details
1. 5389 PYRCROFT ROAD (South side) CHERTSEY No 20 (Clortecnic) with attached wall and outbuildings TQ 06 NW 2/163 and 8/163
II G.V. 2. Former fire station, now office. Dated 1890. Orange-pink brick in Flemish bond; Welsh slate roof. Courtyard plan, having former engine house on west side, mortuary chapel and stable with'loft over on east side, and closing walls at either end. Engine house: north (gable) front: C1980 shop-style window with fluted pilasters fills 2 former archways (which had double doors) over which are relieving arches of headers, on 1st floor tall, narrow, central arched niche flanked by paired sashes under cambered brick arches with stone cills and blue- brick cill band; date plaque in gable breaks blue-brick band; 3 courses of decorative brickwork at eaves rising from brick corbels; on ridge, louvred bellcote with gables and lead-covered spire with weather-vane. Right return: 3 bays defined by pilasters and lower, pent-roofed bay on right: cement plinth; window to each bay and another, smaller, to 1st floor of 3rd bay, all with wooden cross windows under cambered header-brick arches and with blue-brick cills; window inserted in 4th bay, above continuous blue-brick band; wall continues to right approx 3 metres high and with blocked openings. Left return:as right return, but whitewashed below band and the windows of the 2 left-hand bays replaced by C20 doors. Chapel and stable range: single-storey chapel, 1X2 bays; 2-bay stable is taller, having left over, and deeper, projecting forward into yard. North gable (chapel) front has some renewed brickwork; blue-brick quoins and corbels at upper level and surround to gable oculus; eaves treated as engine house; Courtyard front: chapel has 2 shallow windows at upper level, as engine house, and skylight in corrugated iron roof; stable has door and window on left, loft door, now window, under eaves below gable, and right part masked by C20 extension built along rear yard wall, which links it to engine house and is not of special interest. Wall on north side of yard is of red brick in stretcher bond, with chamfered blue-brick coping, approx 2 metres high having wide entry on right flanked by square piers with gabled tops. (Cont)... Interior: Chapel roof has collared rafter roof trusses and is boarded; in stable, narrow stair up to loft. Bellcote housed air-raid warning siren in 2nd World War. An interesting and well preserved example of an early fire station.
Listing NGR: TQ0385566501
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441808
- 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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