Rathcoole House
RATHCOOLE HOUSE, 2, FERNDALE ROAD SW4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299868
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Rathcoole House
- Statutory Address:
- RATHCOOLE HOUSE, 2, FERNDALE ROAD SW4
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299868
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Rathcoole House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RATHCOOLE HOUSE, 2, FERNDALE ROAD SW4
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:
- RATHCOOLE HOUSE, 2, FERNDALE ROAD SW4
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lambeth (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3006475466
Details
FERNDALE ROAD SW4
1. (north side)
5023
No 2
(Rathcoole House)
TQ 3075 17/377 15.5.80
II
2.
Circa 1870, the main house of a scheme designed by T Collcutt and built by Jennings,
an enthusiast for the newly-fashionable terra-cotta as a building material.
Two storeys, attic and basement, irregular fenestration. Three bays to Ferndale
Road. One-bay left return to Bedford Road gives impression of startling height.
Red brick with exuberant terra-cotta dressings. High pitched tiled roof with
fancy ridge tiles and fishscale tiling to cheeks of wide dormer gables, breaking
eaves, one on each face. Pale terra-cotta dressings include random block quoins
(!) eaves cornice, strings, and architraves to segment-headed windows and round-arched
doorway. Style mixes classical and Jacobean motifs. An elliptical full height
oriel bay above entrance had strapwork and balustrading; similar ornament is
applied to a 2-storey canted bay on the Bedford Road front and to the gable
above it.
Listing NGR: TQ3006475466
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 204230
- 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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