Warren Close (Including Attached Arch and Walls)

WARREN CLOSE (INCLUDING ATTACHED ARCH AND WALLS), COOMBE HILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1253414
Date first listed:
23-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
Warren Close (Including Attached Arch and Walls)
Statutory Address:
WARREN CLOSE (INCLUDING ATTACHED ARCH AND WALLS), COOMBE HILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1253414
Date first listed:
23-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
Warren Close (Including Attached Arch and Walls)
Statutory Address 1:
WARREN CLOSE (INCLUDING ATTACHED ARCH AND WALLS), COOMBE HILL 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WARREN CLOSE (INCLUDING ATTACHED ARCH AND WALLS), COOMBE HILL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Kingston upon Thames (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 21309 70262

Details

TQ 27 SW COOMBE HILL ROAD (south side) 59-/2/10023 Warren Close (including attached arch and walls)

GV II

House, formerly gate lodge; 1881-2 by George Devey. Red brick with diaper patterning in dark brick; some painted brickwork, and roughcast to gables. Plain tile roofs. Polygonal tower, now truncated of its machicolations and painted, with gateway attached to right, main range with gabled crosswing, curving curtain wall continuing to left to become garden wall. Two storeys. Arch to right four-centred, with chamfered brickwork and moulded parapet. Next to it, a replaced plank and muntin door with glazed panel beneath four-centred arch and brick hoodmould. Small 9-pane leaded window to left. Similar window to adjacent face. On angle, square paned leaded window with top-hung light. Left hand rice has ground floor leaded window. Return to main roof is tile hung. 2-storey range in brick has diaper patterning. Two ground-floor leaded 3-light casements with sqaure leaded panes beneath segmental arches. Similar dormer casement above, with flat roof Buttress forms base of tall stack. To left, pebbledash rendered gabled upper storey supported on chamfered timber bracket, and with moulded fascia, dentilled barge-boards and 3-light leaded casement. Stack rises as prominent feature at angle of gable and main range. Three attached sharts, with moulded brick neding and bands. Tall pots. To left, curving curtain wall with dentilled brick cornice to parapet, partly swept drops to lower level to form garden wall. Diaper brickwork except where repaired. Higher section has two-light window beneath segmental arch and masks hipped roof of range to rear. Warren Close and Gable Cottage (q.v.) stand either side of the former entrance to Coombe Warren, built in 1870 for Bertram Wodehouse Currie MP and demolished in 1926. They form a particularly picturesque group, and are included as charming examples ofDevey's consumate skill in designing estate cottages.

Listing NGR: TQ2130970262

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
436618
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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