Cliefden House
CLIEFDEN HOUSE, 97-101, ELTHAM HIGH STREET SE9
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1358945
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Cliefden House
- Statutory Address:
- CLIEFDEN HOUSE, 97-101, ELTHAM HIGH STREET SE9
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1358945
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Cliefden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIEFDEN HOUSE, 97-101, ELTHAM HIGH STREET SE9
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:
- CLIEFDEN HOUSE, 97-101, ELTHAM HIGH STREET SE9
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 42823 74437
Details
1. 4412 ELTHAM HIGH STREET SE9 (North Side)
Nos 97 to 101 (odd) (Cliefden House) TQ 4274 53/W23 26.3.54.
II*
2. Early C18 house of 3 storeys, 5 windows, altered in front. Moderately high pitched, hippe, double-span roof renewed in machine tiles. Symmetrical chimney stacks, now roughcast, in gully. Parapet front. Walls thickly covered with roughcast but showing traces of 1st and 2nd floor bands. Replaced sash windows with glazing bars in flush moulded frames. Modern shops on ground floor. Replaced, 6-panel central door, with cornice head and modern patterned fanlight, in round arches, moulded architrave. Framing this are fluted pilasters, panelled impost blocks and dentilled rounded cornice. Rear elevation of original brick with bands at 1st and 2nd floors. Segmental brick arches to sash windows with glazing bars in flush, moulded frames. Reproduction Georgian doorcase and modern, half glazed door. Inside, a barrel-vaulted hall, groin-vaulted at door and staircase entrances. Early C17 staircase, very wide with shallow treads, in 2 long, straight flights between floors. Stairway walled on both sides with wood-lined lower parts and handrail set free from wall to give grip. Square posts at intervals carved with strapwork and having inverted, heart-shaped finials. Round arch to upper flight with pronounced impost blocks and a central pendant matching the staircase finials, but hollow. Many old doors and doorframes. RCHM.
Listing NGR: TQ4282374437
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 200330
- 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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