BISHOP'S HALL AND GEORGE BELL HOUSE

BISHOP'S HALL, 8, AYRES STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376545
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: BISHOP'S HALL AND GEORGE BELL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BISHOP'S HALL, 8, AYRES STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376545
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: BISHOP'S HALL AND GEORGE BELL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BISHOP'S HALL, 8, AYRES STREET
Statutory Address 2:: GEORGE BELL HOUSE, 8A, AYRES STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: BISHOP'S HALL, 8, AYRES STREET
Statutory Address:: GEORGE BELL HOUSE, 8A, AYRES STREET

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ3230679965

Details

TQ3279 636-1/5/24 08/10/73

SOUTHWARK

AYRES STREET (East side) Nos.8 AND 8A Bishop's Hall (No.8) and George Bell House (No.8A) (Formerly Listed as: AYRES STREET (East side) No.8 (George Hill House) with Hall behind)

GV II

Community building in a domestic style, with former Redcross Hall incorporated to rear, now studios and an office and flat. 1887-90. By Elijah Hoole. Red brick with tilehanging, pitched tiled roof with 3 tile-hung gables. Strong Arts and Craft influence. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Entranceways in outer bays, with pointed arches and moulded brick hood moulds, that to left leading to hall, that to right slightly smaller with stairs leading up behind grille. 4-panel door to its left with overlight. 2 large 4-pane sash windows to ground floor. 2-light sash windows to 1st floor beneath each gable. Deep tile-hung band between floors. 2 prominent chimney stacks, 1 on ridge with decorative moulded top. Hall (now a studio with inserted false ceiling) stretches back to a Gothic facade with simple lancet windows, terminating the row of Redcross Cottages overlooking Redcross Gardens (qv). INTERIOR: not inspected. Nos 8 & 8A form an important group with Nos 1-6, Whitecross Cottages, (qv) and the Redcross Cottages, Redcross Way (qv), fronting Redcross Gardens behind, demonstrating the ideals of Octavia Hill, the pioneer of wholesome working-class housing.

Listing NGR: TQ3230679965

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Legacy System number:: 470548
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.