Voysey House
VOYSEY HOUSE, BARLEY MOW PASSAGE W4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1294655
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Voysey House
- Statutory Address:
- VOYSEY HOUSE, BARLEY MOW PASSAGE W4
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1294655
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Voysey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- VOYSEY HOUSE, BARLEY MOW PASSAGE W4
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:
- VOYSEY HOUSE, BARLEY MOW PASSAGE W4
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hounslow (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 20753 78440
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/10/2012
TQ 2078
10/251
21.05.73
BARLEY MOW PASSAGE, W4
Voysey House (Formerly listed as Warehouse)
II*
Sanderson's wallpaper factory, building now offices. 1902, by C F A Voysey for
Messrs Sanderson; alterations 1968 and 1987. Glazed white brick in English bond
with Staffordshire blue brick now painted black to plinth, bands and opening
surrounds; Portland stone dressings; late C20 felted roof. 4-storeys with 1987
roof-top flat; 4½ x 2 bays, the eastern bay containing stairs, lift and toilets.
Original small-pane steel-framed windows to east side, otherwise replacement
early-mid C20 metal casement windows; windows segmental-arched with dripmoulds and
on all but east side occupying full width of bay; circular windows to 3rd floor.
Bays defined by giant butresses, within which are air vents, smaller on 3rd floor
and rising above parapet. Stone cornice to 2nd floor and to shaped parapet. South,
entrance, elevation has round-arched entrance to bay 4 with recessed replacement
doors; left-hand ground-floor window now entrance; metal quadrant caps in buttress
angles; east bay blind apart from 3rd-floor window which replaces entrance to former
bridge, spanning road, across to Sanderson's main factory building. North
elevation: east bay has narrower round-arched windows, the 3rd floor blind; ground
floor windows of 2 right bays blocked, with one inserted door. West end: ground
floor windows altered, that on right blocked and with 1987 round-arched fire-escape
door; that on left now entrance. East end: left bay has round-arched doorway and
various windows, some flat. Arched; 1968 windows to 3rd floor. Interior: cast-iron
columns, reducing in diameter on successive floors, support steel joists and
corrugated-iron-shuttered arched concrete floors. Stair rises around lift shaft.
Roof originally was double pitched with glazed north sides; north parapet lined with
glazed white brick to reflect light down through roof. An important Arts and Crafts
factory building and the only industrial building which Voysey designed. The
Buildings of England, Middlesex, N Persner (1951) p37; Edwardian Architecture, A
Service (1977) pp128, 131; Charles F A Voysey, Architect, D Gebhard (1979), p 27;
The Great Perspectivists, G Stamp (1982) p148.
Listing NGR: TQ2075378440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 202394
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Middlesex, (1951), 37
Stamp, G, The Great Perspectivists, (1982), 148
Service, A, Edwardian Architecture a Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890-1914, (1977), 128
Gebhard, D, Charles FA Voysey Architect, (1979)
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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