New City College, Tower Hamlets
New City College, Tower Hamlets, 112, Poplar High Street, London, E14 0AF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260095
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- New City College, Tower Hamlets
- Statutory Address:
- New City College, Tower Hamlets, 112, Poplar High Street, London, E14 0AF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260095
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- New City College, Tower Hamlets
- Statutory Address 1:
- New City College, Tower Hamlets, 112, Poplar High Street, London, E14 0AF
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:
- New City College, Tower Hamlets, 112, Poplar High Street, London, E14 0AF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 37719 80728
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 May 2022 to update the name, and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 3780
25/903
POPLAR HIGH STREET, E14
No 112 (New City College, Tower Hamlets)
(Formerly listed as No 112 (Poplar Technical College)
II
1906, by W E Riley and the LCC architects department. An interesting Portland stone faced elevation, as built of six bays only, the three to east an addition of 1931.
Restrained use of Classical-Renaissance orders and ornament to dress the principal openings which functionally express the interior, resulting in a classical design that is Norman Shaw inspired but owes more to Lethaby or Beresford Pite. Two storeys, basement, and dormered slate mansard roof.
The originally central group of first floor almost semi-circular windows have finely dressed voussoir arches and are articulated by coupled engagelboric columns rising from sill course. A similar but unframed arched window is pierced to the left of this group, formerly set over the left hand entrance of the original east end bay, now a window. Plain ground floor windows. The right hand bay has a flat arched first floor window with cornice on consoles and below the main entrance: rosette studded gadrooned architrave with overdoor light framed by well carved putti standing on dolphins, shallow cornice hood overall.
The three bay east extension is in a plain matching style, windows the same as in original ground floor. Square section cast iron area railings designed in panels with crows bracing and urn finials and articulated by Portland stone dies. The college was purpose built and had an emphasis on training cadets for the Mercantile Marine, renamed Merchant Navy in 1928, and hence the maritime putti of the overdoor.
Listing NGR: TQ3771980728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441622
- 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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