WHITECROSS COTTAGES

1-6 WHITECROSS COTTAGES, AYRES STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376544
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: WHITECROSS COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: 1-6 WHITECROSS COTTAGES, AYRES STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376544
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: WHITECROSS COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: 1-6 WHITECROSS COTTAGES, AYRES STREET

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:: 1-6 WHITECROSS COTTAGES, AYRES STREET

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ3230779980

Details

TQ3279 636-1/5/23 08/10/73

SOUTHWARK

AYRES STREET (East side) Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) Whitecross Cottages

GV II

Row of 6 cottages. 1890 dated on plaque. By Elijah Hoole. Red brick with tile hanging and pitched tiled roof. Strong Arts and Crafts influence. 2 storeys, 1 bay each. No.1 terminates row with gable end to street, its whole upper half tile-hung and entrance in left return. Plain doors (that to No.3 late C20) with rectangular fanlights, a window beside each. 2-light sash windows, those to 1st floor in segmental-arched reveals and with stucco sill string, those to ground-floor with stucco sills. Broad tile-hung band between floors. INTERIOR: not inspected. The Whitecross Cottages form an important group with Nos 8 & 8A (qv) and the Redcross Cottages (qv) fronting Redcross Gardens behind, demonstrating the ideals of Octavia Hill, the pioneer of wholesome working class housing.

Listing NGR: TQ3230779980

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Legacy System number:: 470547
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.