237 AND 239, SYDENHAM ROAD
237 AND 239, SYDENHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252991
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 237 AND 239, SYDENHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 237 AND 239, SYDENHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252991
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 237 AND 239, SYDENHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 237 AND 239, SYDENHAM 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:
- 237 AND 239, SYDENHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Croydon (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32760 66671
Details
The following building shall be added:
TQ 36 NW SYDENHAM ROAD
1005-/2/10020 Nos. 237 and 239
GV II
Semi-detached houses, now flats, c.1878 to the early patent concrete slab system pioneered by W H Lascelles, builder, with assistance in design by Norman Shaw. Coloured concrete, brick, and concrete tile-hanging stained to resemble clay. Tile roof with brick stacks. Deep plan, the two-storey houses a mirror image of each other, with projecting wings to front and sides. All windows casements, those to jettied first floor with lattice-pattern iron tracery. Entrances in side wings under elaborate projecting doorcases with console brackets, pilasters and original doors. Interiors not inspected. Also included in the listing is the original concrete front boundary wall to no. 237. Included as a remarkable survival of early concrete technology, designed with exceptional architectural skill. This semi-detached pair form a strong group with the listed nos. 226 and 228 opposite, also built to the Lascelles system. Sources: R Norman Shaw, 'Sketches for Cottages', 1878 Andrew Saint, 'Richard Norman Shaw', 1976, pp.165-71.
Listing NGR: TQ3276066671
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436113
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Shaw, R, Sketches for Cottages, (1878)
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976), 165-71
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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