Dovedale Cottages
DOVEDALE COTTAGES, 1, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244324
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Dovedale Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- DOVEDALE COTTAGES, 1, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244324
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Dovedale Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVEDALE COTTAGES, 1, BATTERSEA PARK 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:
- DOVEDALE COTTAGES, 1, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Wandsworth (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 27534 76421
Details
BATTERSEA PARK ROAD TQ 2776 (North side) 1207- /7/10025 No. 1 Dovedale Cottages GV II Almshouse. 1841 from funds donated by a Mrs Lightfoot and her daughter, Mary, for 'persons in reduced circumstances professing godliness'. White brick in Flemish bond with cement dressings, slate roof. Two storeys, rectangular in plan, originally with four rooms. Tudor revival style. All windows casements with small panes. Street elevation a single bay with 3-light first-floor window and blind rectangular panel to ground floor, apparently intended for a memorial inscription that was either never supplied or which has been effaced, window and panel alike in flat-arched openings with simply chamfered jambs and lintels. West return has single-storey entrance porch with door of original design under four-centred Tudor arch and windows to ground floor only; the east return with chimney stack to rear. Both returns are unfenestrated to first floor. No. 1 is the westernmost ofa range of almshouses.
Listing NGR: TQ2753476421
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 449365
- 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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