Caretaker's Lodge
Caretaker's Lodge, 16, Gough Square EC4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375274
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Caretaker's Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- Caretaker's Lodge, 16, Gough Square EC4
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375274
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Caretaker's Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Caretaker's Lodge, 16, Gough Square EC4
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:
- Caretaker's Lodge, 16, Gough Square EC4
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31367 81253
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 June 2023 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 3181 SW
627-0/4/10061
GOUGH SQUARE, EC4
No.16 (Caretaker's Lodge)
GV
II
Caretaker's Lodge. 1910-12 by Alfred Burr. Brown brick with red brick dressing in early eighteenth-century style. Steep slate roof. Two storeys.
North elevation: paired entrances on ground floor, paired windows with gauged flat window heads above, breaking through eaves into the roof and terminating in segmental pediment. Red brick dentilled cornice, red brick quoins on second storey above red brick band. East elevation: A pair of oeil-de-bouef windows on ground storey; single windows on first floor breaking through eaves, with segmental pediment above.
South elevation: paired windows at first floor level, breaking through roofline. Historical note: The lodge was built for the curator of Johnson's house at No 17 Gough Square. The house was acquired by Lord Harmsworth in 1911 and refurbished by Alfed Burr.
TQ3136781253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466159
- 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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