Ventilating Pipe to Former Public Conveniences
VENTILATING PIPE TO FORMER PUBLIC CONVENIENCES, NEW CROSS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261964
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Ventilating Pipe to Former Public Conveniences
- Statutory Address:
- VENTILATING PIPE TO FORMER PUBLIC CONVENIENCES, NEW CROSS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261964
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Ventilating Pipe to Former Public Conveniences
- Statutory Address 1:
- VENTILATING PIPE TO FORMER PUBLIC CONVENIENCES, NEW CROSS 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:
- VENTILATING PIPE TO FORMER PUBLIC CONVENIENCES, NEW CROSS ROAD
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:
- TQ3577576861
Details
The following building shall be added:
TQ 3576
779-/6/10024
NEW CROSS ROAD
(south-west side)
Ventilating pipe to former public conveniences
GV
II
Ventilating pipe. Installed as part of public conveniences of 1897 by George Jennings, sanitary
engineer, for Greenwich District Board of Works on behalf of the Vestry of St Paul's, Deptford.
Central ventilating column of Egyptian pattern by Macfarlane's Castings of Glasgow and modelled
on a design by Alexander'Greek'Thomson for six lampstandards outside his Egyptian Halls, these
were erected without authority and were demolished in 1871. This is one of only two known
examples of the design, the other is in Clifton Rise, New Cross, but is not on its original site. The
ventilating pipe served as an extract for foul gases from the lavatories below, which could be burnt
offby the gas mantle at the top.
The cast-iron ventilation shaft alone is listed for the special interest of its design. Its Egyptian
pattern is most unusual, and it is special in its derivation from a model by a leading Scottish
architect, Alexander Thomson. The ventilation columns in New Cross are the only works
associated with Thomson in England.
Source:
Gavin Stamp, 'Greek T in London', in The Alexander Thomson Society Newsletter, No. 8,
October 1993.
Listing NGR: TQ3577576861
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436199
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stamp, G, The Alexander Thomson Society Newsletter in Greek T In London, (1993)
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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