53-63, BEDFORD ROAD SW4
53-63, BEDFORD ROAD SW4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263676
- Date first listed:
- 27-Mar-1981
- List Entry Name:
- 53-63, BEDFORD ROAD SW4
- Statutory Address:
- 53-63, BEDFORD ROAD SW4
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- Date:
- 2000-10-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/02933/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263676
- Date first listed:
- 27-Mar-1981
- List Entry Name:
- 53-63, BEDFORD ROAD SW4
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53-63, BEDFORD ROAD SW4
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:
- 53-63, BEDFORD ROAD SW4
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lambeth (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30068 75424
Details
BEDFORD ROAD SW4 1. (east side) 5023 Nos 53 to 63 (odd) TQ 3075 17/33
II GV
2. Circa 1870, in stock brick with creamy terra-cotta dressings, built by Jennings as part of a larger scheme of houses of varying size and quality, to the designs of T Collcutt. These are the most substantial houses after 'Rathcoole' in Ferndale Road. Mixture of classical - Italian and Gothic motifs. Each house 4 storeys and basement, 2 windows. Crisply and well detailed terra-cotta work: moulded eaves cornice with deep brackets; pilasters with guilloche moulded panels to third floor segment-headed windows; rusticated architraves to round-arched second-floor windows. Canted bays through lower floors have leafy patterns on lintels and floral capitals to pilasters. There are vermiculate rusticated quoins and quasi-Corinthian prostyle porches with fluted and garlanded columns, up 4 steps. Doors of 3 long and one wide panel, with rectangular fanlight.
Listing NGR: TQ3006875424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431739
- 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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