Blackheath Art Club
BLACKHEATH ART CLUB, 47, BENNETT PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246342
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Blackheath Art Club
- Statutory Address:
- BLACKHEATH ART CLUB, 47, BENNETT PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246342
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Blackheath Art Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACKHEATH ART CLUB, 47, BENNETT PARK
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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:
- BLACKHEATH ART CLUB, 47, BENNETT PARK
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:
- TQ3988876000
Details
TQ 3975
786/45/10134
25-APR-01
BENNETT PARK
Blackheath
47
Blackheath Art Club
II
Artists' studios, now flats. 1885-6 with 1891 Annexe. John C P Higgs and Frank Rudkin, architects. Red Brick with roughcast and hung tile to one gable. Arts and Crafts style of one main range. Separate Annexe to right in warehouse style.
FACADE Two storeys plus attic. Two main entrances at centre. Facade reads of 4 parts: hipped gable section to left with symmetrically arranged segmental-arch windows, extra large at ground floor to accommodate exhibition room; connecting section with band of leaded lights at first floor in roughcast; gabled section in roughcast with large Renaissance-style window dropping into brick ground floor; end section with ogee-headed lights at ground-floor, roughcast first-floor with cross-windows and attic dormer. Tile-hung gable to side elevation. Rear elevation (now facing retaining wall) with large windows to studio space. Separate plainer Annexe of three stories with large windows and buttresses.
INTERIOR Two sections of one range no longer communicating, each with main entrance. Left section of building opens into small tiled hall. Exhibition hall at ground floor (now flat). Stairs to artist's flat (now flat) above. Right section of building steps up into bottle-glass entrance porch. Central tiled hall with fireplace, half-height panelling and frieze. Wide staircase to first floor studios (now flats). Pointed-arch entryway to studio (now flat) at ground and first floors. Doors (now blind) to men's lavatories (gone) and left range. Interiors of flats not inspected.
HISTORY Built as artists' studios and exhibition space for the 1883-founded Blackheath Art Society. Used 1933-1943 as headquarters and studio for the GPO film unit. Given English Heritage Blue Plaque in 2000.
SOURCES Rhind, Neil. Blackheath Village and Environs 1790-1990 Volume 1: The Village and Blackheath Vale.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487333
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rhind, N, Blackheath Village and Environs 1790-1990 Volume 1: The Village and Blackheath Vale, ()
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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