VOYSEY HOUSE

VOYSEY HOUSE, BARLEY MOW PASSAGE W4

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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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 202394
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gebhard, D, Charles FA Voysey Architect, (1979)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Middlesex, (1951), 37
Service, A, Edwardian Architecture a Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890-1914, (1977), 128
Stamp, G, The Great Perspectivists, (1982), 148

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.