Livesey Memorial Hall Boundary Wall
LIVESEY MEMORIAL HALL BOUNDARY WALL, PERRY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253121
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Livesey Memorial Hall Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- LIVESEY MEMORIAL HALL BOUNDARY WALL, PERRY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253121
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1995
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Livesey Memorial Hall Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIVESEY MEMORIAL HALL BOUNDARY WALL, PERRY HILL
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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:
- LIVESEY MEMORIAL HALL BOUNDARY WALL, PERRY HILL
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 36559 72125
History
The Livesey Memorial Hall was built in the north-west corner of the South Suburban Gas Company’s principal site at Bell Green, which in 1911 employed 380 men. Much of the building work was carried out by the Gas Company itself. Sir George Thomas Livesey (1834-1908, knighted in 1902), whom the Livesey Memorial Hall commemorates, was a director of the company for 30 years; an engineer, industrialist and philanthropist, he initiated many technical improvements in the design of gas holders. Livesey was the builder of the Greenwich Gas Works (1883) and was a pioneer of co-partnership (profit-sharing) within the industry. Minutes recording the decision to commemorate Livesey through the erection of a recreation room for the employees note the suitability of the memorial, ‘Bearing in mind the very great interest which was always taken by Sir George in all matters affecting the well-being of the employees’. The hall became the focus of the gaswork’s recreational facilities; a bowling green and tennis courts were also provided in the same part of the site, for the use of the employees. The bowling green survives to the north of the hall, enclosed to the west by the boundary wall; a pavilion, not shown on the 1936 map though possibly moved from another location, also survives. The listed war memorial (LE 1253111), erected in the hall’s forecourt in 1920, and also enclosed by the wall, commemorates those employees of the South Suburban Gas Company who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars.
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 02/11/2018
TQ 3672
779-/31/10053
PERRY HILL
Livesey Memorial Hall Boundary Wall
GV II
Wall, 1911, built to the west of the Livesey Memorial Hall (LE 1253110), a recreation hall of the same date by SY Shoubridge, Engineer to the South Suburban Gas Company, for the Company’s employees.
MATERIALS: London stock brick with red brick borders and Ruabon terracotta caps and coping.
PLAN: the wall forms the western boundary of the hall, and of the bowling green to the north, and encloses the war memorial in the hall’s forecourt.
DETAILS: the wall is divided into sections by panelled piers with shallow pyramidal caps. Each section has a curved coped top, those to either side of the entrance-way rising to support volutes flanking the taller gate piers. The double iron gates are made by Macfarlane and Co of Glasgow.
Listing NGR: TQ3655972125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436256
- 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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