Chertsey House

Chertsey House, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357758
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: Chertsey House
Statutory Address:: Chertsey House, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357758
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: Chertsey House
Statutory Address 1:: Chertsey House, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Chertsey House, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

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 33671 82585

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 February 2022 to correct street name in the last paragraph of description and to reformat text to current standards.

TQ 3382 8/62

BOUNDARY ESTATE ARNOLD CIRCUS E2 Chertsey House

GV II 1899. Red brick, ground floor glazed with white stone moulded string course above. Salmon pink banding to brickwork of second and third floors, central gable and chimneys. Bands increase in width towards top of building. Eaves cornice. Slate mansard roof. Four storeys and dormers, five storeys under central gable. Nine windows, sashes with segmental heads and glazing bars. Centre three bays under gable with crow stepped ends and central curved feature. Outer two bays become three-light chamfered oriel bays between first and third floors, with stucco base. Central window in banded arched recess. Fourth floor windows have stucco tympana. Roundel above. Ground floor, central round arched door with chequered tympanum, short stucco pilasters and separate narrow side windows. Flanking windows of three lights, stuccoed mullions and surround.

The Boundary Estate is an early LCC estate of advanced design for its period. It contains a variety of architectural details and its streets radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The entire estate forms a group. See the following streets; Arnold Circus E2, Boundary Street E2, Calvert Avenue E2, Camlet Street E2, Club Row E2, Hocker Street E2, Ligonier Street E2, Montclare Street E2, Naverre Street E2, Old Nichol Street E2, Palissy Street E2, Rochelle Street E2, Swanfield Street E2 and Virginia Street E2.

Listing NGR: TQ3367482580

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Legacy System number:: 205719
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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