Former Battersea Polytechnic Institute
FORMER BATTERSEA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, MOUNTFIELD MANSIONS, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD, SW11
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357653
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Former Battersea Polytechnic Institute
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BATTERSEA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, MOUNTFIELD MANSIONS, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD, SW11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357653
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Former Battersea Polytechnic Institute
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BATTERSEA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, MOUNTFIELD MANSIONS, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD, SW11
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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.
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:
- FORMER BATTERSEA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, MOUNTFIELD MANSIONS, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD, SW11
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Wandsworth (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28392 76758
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/02/2014
TQ 2876 8/3
5033
BATTERSEA PARK ROAD, SW11
Former Battersea Polytechnic Institute (Mountfield Mansions)
(Formerly listed as Westminster College)
II
Former Polytechnic Institute. By E W Mountford (189O). Long symmetrical Northern Renaissance composition of 2-storeys, attic and Dutch gables. Red brick, stone dressings, tiled roof. Frontispiece of slightly advanced twin gabled pavilions framing main entrance bay. Four-bay recessed ranges 2-storeys and attic link frontispiece to gabled end-pavilions. Each end-pavilion comprises on plan an inner segmental bay and an outer and more strongly-projecting square bay. Doric entrance porch with quadrant wings and high parapet, balustraded over the quadrants. Entablature of main door has swan-neck pediment and is flanked by sashes with high entablatures. Behind the porch parapet a round-arched first floor window framed in an Ionic aedicule. In frontispiece and linking ranges, attic pilaster order pierced by bull's-eye windows and capped in frontispiece alone by complex swan-neck pediments. In the gabled pavilions these culminate in aedicules with statuary. Gabled end-pavilions also have attic order, with statuary in niches. Steep-pitched roof with open octagonal lantern, ogival cap and needle spire.
*Extensions to north-west and west not included in listing.
Listing NGR: TQ2839276758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206986
- 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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