4-8, CHESTNUT WALK

4-8, CHESTNUT WALK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1294916
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
4-8, CHESTNUT WALK
Statutory Address:
4-8, CHESTNUT WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1294916
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
4-8, CHESTNUT WALK
Statutory Address 1:
4-8, CHESTNUT WALK

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
4-8, CHESTNUT WALK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Surrey
District:
Elmbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 09379 62584

Details

TQ 0692 BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE CHESTNUT WALK

Whiteley Village

10/45 Nos. 4 to 8 (even)

GV II

Almshouse flats. Circa 1912 by Walter Cave. Red brick, stone dressings with hipped plin tiled roofs; end stacks either side of centre, ridge stacks to wings. Symmetrical , 2 storey, 3 bay block to centre with flanking 1 storey wings to ends, projecting forward to form a courtyard in front. Central block with quoined ends, plat band over ground floor; stone dressed mullion and transome (angle bay casement) windows to outer bays rising through 2 floors and into the roof line. Centre divided into 3 bays by quoined piers, arched arcade across ground floor, upper balcony above with outer openings glazed. Staircase behind centre arch, recessed planked doors in arched openings to ends, further doors in quoined wings to side. Central lantern on bracket over ground floor arch. Part of Whiteley Village, laid out on an octagonal plan, commissioned by William Whiteley of Whiteley Stores to provide housing for thrifty old folk. PEVSNER : BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp 520-1.

Listing NGR: TQ0937962584

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
286620
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 520-1

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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