Electricity Transformer Station
ELECTRICITY TRANSFORMER STATION, MORETON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1271485
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Electricity Transformer Station
- Statutory Address:
- ELECTRICITY TRANSFORMER STATION, MORETON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1271485
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Electricity Transformer Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELECTRICITY TRANSFORMER STATION, MORETON STREET
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:
- ELECTRICITY TRANSFORMER STATION, MORETON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29584 78439
Details
TQ 2978 SE WESTMINSTER MORETON STREET (south east side)
110/10142 Electricity Transformer Station
GV II*
Electricity transformer station with garden on top. Design won in competition in 1961 by John Darbourne. Detailed and built in 1964-7 by Darbourne and Geoffrey Darke for Westminster City Council. Darke the architect in charge for this element. In-situ reinforced concrete construction, grit-blasted, with part load-bearing brick walls clad in multi-red hand-made facing bricks, with raked joints. Roof paved with similar red bricks and planted as a playground and garden. Square plan, largely submerged in the basement level of the Victorian houses previously on the site. Eight large transformers and coolers, with switch rooms, batteries and other auxiliary rooms and staff facilities. Garden on top. Elevations of sub-station in Dudokian style, powerfully massed, with vertical bands of bricks and teak louvres at either end, and projecting central element supported on exposed concrete beams. Two central teak doors with louvres either side. North elevation similar but more regular. On top the garden has a high wall with trellis openings, through which the planting overhangs in the manner encouraged at Lillington Gardens. The transformer station, originally with a football pitch on top, was the first part of Lillington Gardens to be built. It is one of the most abstract elements of the scheme and is a powerful composition.
Listing NGR: TQ2958478439
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472008
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architects Journal in 12 August, (1961), 156-68
Architectural Review in November, (1967), 379-80
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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