BECKENHAM PLACE MANSION

BECKENHAM PLACE MANSION, BECKENHAM PLACE PARK, BECKENHAM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1359317
Date first listed:: 28-May-1954
List Entry Name:: BECKENHAM PLACE MANSION
Statutory Address:: BECKENHAM PLACE MANSION, BECKENHAM PLACE PARK, BECKENHAM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1359317
Date first listed:: 28-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: BECKENHAM PLACE MANSION
Statutory Address 1:: BECKENHAM PLACE MANSION, BECKENHAM PLACE PARK, BECKENHAM

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:: BECKENHAM PLACE MANSION, BECKENHAM PLACE PARK, BECKENHAM

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Lewisham (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 37859 70706

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/06/2012

TQ 37 SE 1/7 28.5.54 4407

BECKENHAM PARK PLACE BECKENHAM Beckenham Place Mansion

(Formerly listed as Beckenham Place Park Golf Club House)

(Formerly listed as Beckenham Place, partly listed in Borough of Lewisham dated 30.8.54.)

II*

This mansion was built about 1773 for John Cator (1728-1806). It is rather similar to Damson Park, Welling, Bexley, designed by Sir Robert Taylor in 1765 and may be by him. It is built of ashlar and has 3 storeys. The main front faces south-east. 7 windows. The ground floor has long and short quoins and a stringcourse above it. Cornice above the second floor and blocking course. Hipped slate roof. In the centre is a curved bay of 3 windows on all floors. A modern balcony has been added to its 1st floor with an outside staircase leading up to it, as the principal rooms are on the 1st floor on this side of the house. The sides of the building have 4 windows each. On the north-west side is a central projection of which the sides are rusticated on the ground floor with, above, a large tripartite window. The centre light of this is round-headed and flanked by engaged Ionic columns with a pediment ever. The outer lights are flanked by Doric pilasters with a cornice over. 2 windows on the 2nd floor of each side. The north-west front of this projection forms a portico said to have been added in 1787 and brought from Wricklemarsh House, Blackheath. This gives entrance to the house at 1st floor level. 4 giant composite columns rising through 2 storeys support a pediment containing a cartouche of the arms of the Cator family set in foliage with the motto "Nihil sine labore". The portico contains a central doorway flanked by engaged Ionic columns with a projecting cornice over and rectangular fanlight. On each side of the doorway is a niche containing a statue. The principal feature of the interior is a central hall with a gallery and a small circular dome. The contemporary stables to the north-east of the house stand within the Borough of Lewisham in the County of London, NMR photograph.

Listing NGR: TQ3785970706

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.