Coombe Cottage
COOMBE COTTAGE, 187, COOMBE LANE WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1358457
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coombe Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COOMBE COTTAGE, 187, COOMBE LANE WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1358457
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coombe Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOMBE COTTAGE, 187, COOMBE LANE WEST
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:
- COOMBE COTTAGE, 187, COOMBE LANE WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Kingston upon Thames (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 21519 70062
Details
TO 27 SW KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES COOMBE LANE WEST (east side)
2/51 No. 187 (Coombe Cottage)
GV II
House, now offices. Built 1863 and extended 1870-4 by George Devey for E. C. Baring, the banker. Red brick with purple brick diaper work; weatherboarded gables; gabled Welsh slate roof; brick stacks. Pictur- esque neo-vernacular style. Asymmetrical plan and 2-storey elevations. Main west elevation has 3-stage tower with staircase projection to right; flat brick arches over casement windows; moulded brick cornice and battlemented parapet. To front of this tower is a half-glazed door set in moulded basket-arched architrave, and porch with wood mullions to glazed panels, a coved pilaster cornice, and a parapet with late C17-style balustrade. To left of porch are 4 asymmetrically- planned gabled projections which, from nearest to the porch, have quatrefoil gable light, square bay window with double-gabled roof, and, finally, a square bay window; 3 gables nearest porch have weather- boarding, all have bargeboards and wood-mullioned and transomed windows, and gable to left has segmental brick tympanum arches over openings. Range in neo-Tudor style to right of porch, with 2-storey bays facing west and east and 5 bay south elevation with gabled fronts to east and west cross wings, all with label moulds over chamfered stone- mullioned windows. East elevation has 4 gables to centre, with barge- boards, weatherboarded upper gables, and weatherboarded jettied first floor to right with chamfered wood quoin blocks; splayed oriel window with similar treatment to left; flat brick arches over wood-mullioned and transomed casements. Short brick screen wall with keystone to elliptical-arched doorway connects multi-gabled range to 4-stage tower on right, which has similar casement windows having moulded brick string courses and cornice, and similar shaped floating cornices over ground and first-floor windows. Interior noted as having original Devey doors, panelling and staircase. This house is one of Devey's earliest commissions and its early use of the neo-vernacular style anticipates the later work of Shaw and Webb.
(M. Girouard, The Victorian Country House, 1971, pp. 178, 197).
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Listing NGR: TQ2151970062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203205
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971), 178+197
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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