ALBERT COTTAGES

ALBERT COTTAGES, 19-26, DEAL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1356652
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: ALBERT COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: ALBERT COTTAGES, 19-26, DEAL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1356652
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Dec-2002
List Entry Name:: ALBERT COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: ALBERT COTTAGES, 19-26, DEAL STREET

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ALBERT COTTAGES, 19-26, DEAL STREET

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 34158 81954

Details

788/15/470 DEAL STREET 27-SEP-73 (West side) 19-26 Albert Cottages (Formerly listed as: DEAL STREET E1 20-35 Albert Cottages)

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Albert Cottages. 19-26 Albert Cottages. Artisans' dwellings. 1858 for the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. Probably designed by Henry Roberts (1803-1876). Row of none houses, formerly each sub-divided into two units. PLAN: recatangular plots with wings to the rear, originally comprising three rooms per floor with sanitary facilities; set back behind small gardens, off a paved forecourt. EXTERIORS: yellow stock brick with red brick door and window surrounds, slate roofs. Each house is two windows wide at the upper floor. Double doors to the ground floor now adapted to single dewelling use. Modern replacement casement windows in place of original sash windows. INTERIORS: not inspected, believed to be considerably altered. HISTORY: the Metropolitan Association purchased the site of Victoria [q.v.] and Albert Cottages in 1850: Albert Cottages were built on the site of the late Georgian Pelham Street, which was demolished in 1857. These small cottages, of a kind more commonly found in the north of England, were intended for small artisan families who were unable to pay the higher rents of the larger family units in those dwellings that were beginning to be built by philanthropic housing bodies at this time. Their low-rise density was critized by their own architect, no less, at the time of construction but they now afford a rare insight into the sort of cottage accommodation once common, now scarce, in the East End. The houses were extensively modernised by the Newlon Housing Trust in the late 1970s. The row opposite, to the south, formed part of the same development but the houses have had their doors moved from the front to the back and are not listed. The houses were illustrated in the 1867 edition of Henry Roberts's 'The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes'. SOURCES: J.M. Tarn, 'Five Per cent Philanthropy' (Cambridge 1973), 26-27; James Stevens Curl, 'The Life and Work of Henry Roberts' (Chichester 1983), 114-115, 196-197.

Listing NGR: TQ3415881954

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Legacy System number:: 205921
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Curl, J S, The Life and Work of Henry Roberts 1803-1876, (1983), 114-115
Tarn, N , 'The Builder' in Five Per Cent Philanthropy, (1973), 26-27

Legal

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