Old Essex House

OLD ESSEX HOUSE, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1261432
Date first listed:
27-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Old Essex House
Statutory Address:
OLD ESSEX HOUSE, STATION ROAD
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1261432
Date first listed:
27-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Old Essex House
Statutory Address 1:
OLD ESSEX HOUSE, STATION 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD ESSEX HOUSE, STATION ROAD

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Richmond upon Thames (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ2177876359

Details

The following building shall be added:-

1.
5028
TQ 2176
12/33

STATION ROAD
Old Essex House

II

2.
Part of large gentry house, now house and surgery. Late C16/early C17 origins;
remodelled in late C17, mid C18 and c1845. Mid C19 stucco over brick; gabled
Welsh slate roof; mid C19 rendered ridge stack with moulded stone cornices.
2-unit plan with cross wing to right. 2 storeys. Elevation to left, of 2-window
range, has late C19 Gothic-style doorway with linenfold-panelled half-glazed
doors set beneath brattished cornice and cusped overlight; C20 windows set in
mid C19 moulded stone architraves (sections of late C17 bolection mouldings on
first floor) with triple keystones; C20 inserted doorway to left. Gable end
of cross wing to right has two C20 first floor windows set in late C17
keyed bolection - moulded stone architraves, mid C19 moulded stone architrave
to C20 ground-floor window and inserted C20 window and door. Mid C19 moulded
stone cornice. Late C19 one-storey addition to right. Interior: mid C19
panelled doors and plaster cornices. Room to rear right (former kitchen) has
late C19 Tudor-style fireplace with carved spandrels and reset late C15 foliate
roof bosses. Room to front, former dining room, has panelling of c1750 with
moulded wood architrave and dentilled cornice to fireplace. To rear left is a
fine staircase of c1680: of dog-leg with winders type, with turned balusters
set on closed string.

Listing NGR: TQ2177876359

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
437574
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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