135-153, COMMERCIAL STREET
135-153, COMMERCIAL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357541
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 135-153, COMMERCIAL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 135-153, COMMERCIAL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357541
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 135-153, COMMERCIAL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 135-153, COMMERCIAL STREET
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:
- 135-153, COMMERCIAL 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 33622 81986
Details
The following building shall be added:-
Commercial Street TQ 3382 + 3381 8 + 14/6014 Nos. 135-153 (odd)
II GV
Artisans' flats, now shops and flats. 1863-4 by Henry Darbishire for the Peabody Trust. Yellow brick with red brick dressings and stuccoed window arches; gabled slate roof; brick stacks 4 storeys and attics; 23-window range of 3:2:4:2:4:2:4:2 fenestration with shaped gables to slighty projecting 2-window bays. Channelled rustication, articulated by pilasters to moulded dentilled cornice, to lower 2 storeys: mid C19 shop fronts with pilasters and half-glazed doors to Nos. 135, 139, 141, 149, 151 and 153 and flat rusticated brick arches over central doors flanked by keyed flat arches over 6-pane sashes; similar first floor windows. Keyed and stuccoed segmental arches, and ogee arches to gabled bays over 6-pane sashes to upper storeys; keyed architraves to continous attic windows. Rounded angle to Folgate Street is fronted by stack and has 3 tall windows set in rusticated semi-circular arches flanking doorway set in keyed brick architrave with pilasters to dentilled entablature. Similar elevation to Folgate Street, with pedimented entrance and without shop fronts. Interior not inspected. The earliest building erected for the Peabody Trust, and a significant example of mid-Victorian philanthropic and artisan housing: the original design incorporated shops, artisans' dwellings, laundries, drying areas and baths. (The Builder, 1863, pp 547-8; 1864, p 67; J N Tarn, Five Per Cent Philanthropy, 1973, pp 44-6; J E Connor and B I Critchley, Palaces for the Poor, 1984, pp 16-18.
Listing NGR: TQ3362281986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206508
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Connor, , Critchley, , Palaces for the Poor, (1984), 16-18
The Builder in The Builder, (1863), 547-8
The Builder in The Builder, (1864), 67
Tarn, N, The Builder in Five Per Cent Philanthropy, (1973), 44-6
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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