Greenwich Magistrates Court
GREENWICH MAGISTRATES COURT, 7-9, BLACKHEATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272459
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Greenwich Magistrates Court
- Statutory Address:
- GREENWICH MAGISTRATES COURT, 7-9, BLACKHEATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272459
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Greenwich Magistrates Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENWICH MAGISTRATES COURT, 7-9, BLACKHEATH ROAD
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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:
- GREENWICH MAGISTRATES COURT, 7-9, BLACKHEATH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 37589 76875
Details
786/0/10153 BLACKHEATH ROAD
04-DEC-02 7-9
Greenwich Magistrates Court
GV II
Magistrates Court with police station. 1909, designed by John Dixon Butler FRIBA, Architect to the Metropolitan Police, in a free Classical Style. Builders Patman and Fothingham. Faced in Portland stone with Westmorland mansard slate roof with four stone chimneystacks. Other elevations red brick in Flemish bond.
EXTERIOR: Symmetrical front of two storeys and attic with eight bays to central section and remaining windows in projecting pedimented wings. Rusticated ground floor. Stone balustrading to central eight bays incorporating central semi-circular tablet with Royal Coat of Arms, carved in stone by Lawrence Turner. Central part has six flat-roofed dormers set behind the balustrading. First floor has 12-light sashes in moulded architraves with enriched keystones. Ground floor has large 18-pane sashes with similar keystones. Central portico has half-dome with urn finial supported on four Ionic columns and double doors up a flight of stone steps. Left and right side doors have bolection-moulded architraves and double doors. Projecting end wings have Ionic pilasters to two upper floors, paired 12-pane sashes with aprons to second floor, triple sash window to first floor and curved three-light bow to ground floor. Further stone balustrading at street level.
INTERIOR: Police station foyer to left side of main entrance has a mosaic tiled floor with MP monogram (for Metropolitan Police) laid by Messrs Diespeker. The leaded lights in the hall are glazed with coloured glass by William Morris and Sons. The door to Court 1, the principal courtroom, leads from the foyer. It is toplit with a decorative plaster frieze around the light well, a monogram of Edward VII in plaster above the bench on either side of the Royal Arms, (the plasterwork by a Mr Bankart0, with the bench in a curved recess, up three steps. The Courtroom has mostly original fittings. The original main staircase is of oak with square newel post with ball finial, moulded handrail and turned balusters. There are two classical wooden fire surrounds in the principal offices on the first floor. Court 2 on the first floor was refurbished c1980. Court 3 has a separate street access and is c1960.
[ "British Architect" 27 May 1910, description and engraving.
"Buildings of England. London : South volume p249.]
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489876
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 2: South, (1983), 249
The British Architect in The British Architect: 27 May, (1910)
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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