The Officers Block (Building Eleven) Royal Arsenal
THE OFFICERS BLOCK (BUILDING ELEVEN) ROYAL ARSENAL, SEYMOUR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289024
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Officers Block (Building Eleven) Royal Arsenal
- Statutory Address:
- THE OFFICERS BLOCK (BUILDING ELEVEN) ROYAL ARSENAL, SEYMOUR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289024
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Officers Block (Building Eleven) Royal Arsenal
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OFFICERS BLOCK (BUILDING ELEVEN) ROYAL ARSENAL, SEYMOUR 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:
- THE OFFICERS BLOCK (BUILDING ELEVEN) ROYAL ARSENAL, SEYMOUR STREET
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 43849 79067
Details
TQ 4479 SEYMOUR STREET
9/364 The Officers' Block (Building eleven) Royal Arsenal
II GV
Ordnance building. 1717-20, by Henry Lidgebird. Flemish bond stock brick; stone-coped slate mansard roof; brick stacks. Double-depth plan. 3-storeys; symmetrical 11-window range. Panelled doors set in early C18 porch to right and similar porch of C1870 to left.
Gauged brick segmental arches over 4-pane sashes and over smaller C20 two-light casements to second floor with moulded brick string courses to cill level and beneath parapet, which is raised over central bay. Early C19 wing of similar materials to rear. Interior noted as having early C18 joinery, enriched marble fireplaces and staircase to right with fine wrought-iron balustrade. One of several buildings constructed by Lidgebird between 1717 and 1720 at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
Listing NGR: TQ4384979067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398177
- 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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