ROYAL ARSENAL WEST RIVERSIDE GUARDROOM

ROYAL ARSENAL WEST RIVERSIDE GUARDROOM, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245207
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: ROYAL ARSENAL WEST RIVERSIDE GUARDROOM
Statutory Address:: ROYAL ARSENAL WEST RIVERSIDE GUARDROOM, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245207
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Jul-1997
List Entry Name:: ROYAL ARSENAL WEST RIVERSIDE GUARDROOM
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL ARSENAL WEST RIVERSIDE GUARDROOM, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

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 ARSENAL WEST RIVERSIDE GUARDROOM, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

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 43815 79374

Details

TQ 4479 PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18 (North side)

786/9/46 Royal Arsenal West Riverside Guardroom 08/06/73

GV II

Guardhouse. 1814, possibly by James or Lewis Wyatt. Yellow and red stock brick with limestone ashlar cornice and parapet, central brick stack and hipped 8-sided slate roof. Octagonal single-room plan. Single storey; 8-bay range. Each side has a rubbed brick segmental-arched recesses, the S entrance bay has a 6-panel door, other sides have segmental-arched 6/6-pane sashes. Interior without decorative features. One of a pair which originally flanked the river entrance to the Arsenal, originally the main entrance. The steps were removed in 1931. (Wesley H, The Royal Arsenal: a brief history, London, 1987, p15; RCHME, Rapid Survey Report, 1994)

Listing NGR: TQ4295478475

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Legacy System number:: 468769
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wesley, H , The Royal Arsenal: A Brief History, (1987), 15
'Historic Buildings Report' in The Royal Arsenal Woolwich, (1994)

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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.