Sydenham Hill Community Hall and Retaining Walls
SYDENHAM HILL COMMUNITY HALL AND RETAINING WALLS, LAMMAS GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246822
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Sydenham Hill Community Hall and Retaining Walls
- Statutory Address:
- SYDENHAM HILL COMMUNITY HALL AND RETAINING WALLS, LAMMAS GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246822
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Sydenham Hill Community Hall and Retaining Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYDENHAM HILL COMMUNITY HALL AND RETAINING WALLS, LAMMAS GREEN
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:
- SYDENHAM HILL COMMUNITY HALL AND RETAINING WALLS, LAMMAS GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lewisham (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 34579 72431
Details
TQ 3472
779/29/10077
LEWISHAM,
LAMMAS GREEN (South side),
Sydenham Hill Community Hall and retaining walls
(Formerly listed as Former Community Centre, Now Nursery, and retaining walls)
GV II
Community centre. 1955-7 by Donald McMorran of Farquharson and McMorran, with Peter Nuttall as assistant, for the Corporation of the City of London. Brick construction, colourwashed, with pantiled roofs. The public hall is the same height as the two-storey houses, and was designed to seat eighty people. Three tall sash windows to front, with round-arched door under lamp to side. Round-arched openings in retaining wall to right, turning corner to join the hall to the long range of flats on the west side of the green. Interior with panelled dado and wood-block floors.
Donald McMorran is slowly becoming recognised as one of the most significant architects to work in a traditional style in the 1950s. What makes him stand out from other traditionalists was his willingness to tackle progressive building types like public housing and schools while sticking to the old values of composition, proportion and texture. This puts him in closer to Giles Scott than to Erith. He also owed much to Vincent Harris, for whom he worked between 1927 and 1935. This is the smallest but finest of four housing schemes by McMorran, two of them for the City Corporation. The community hall, set into the corner and linking No. 39 with the larger block of flats, plays an important part in enclosing the group on its south-west side.
Listing NGR: TQ3457972431
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471976
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in 22 November, (1957), 906-908
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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