NUMBERS 1-50 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 1-50 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-50, CLIFTON CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378483
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-50 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-50 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-50, CLIFTON CRESCENT

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Date:: 2002-04-11
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378483
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-50 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-50 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-50, CLIFTON CRESCENT

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:: NUMBERS 1-50 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-50, CLIFTON CRESCENT

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:: TQ 35022 77257

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3477SE CLIFTON CRESCENT 636-1/40/210 (South side) 07/01/74 Nos.1-50 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON CRESCENT (South side) Nos.3-67 (Odd))

II

Crescent of 34 houses, now divided into flats. 1847-1851, wholly restored 1977. MATERIALS: stock brick, faced with unusual use of red brick facing; low-pitched slate roofs behind stucco cornice with brackets and parapet. STYLE: represents transition between Regency and simpler Victorian terraced houses. PLAN: a long, shallow arc. EXTERIOR: 22 units of 2 storeys with a semi-basement and 12 units of 3 storeys with a semi-basement, grouped to form end groups of 3 and a central group of 6; 2 bays each. Narrow stucco doorcases with panelled pilasters, frieze and cornice on moulded brackets. Most doors replaced and some now deeply recessed. Curved, scalloped lead canopies above 3-light ground-floor windows with transoms and cast-iron guards. Flat, gauged-brick arches to 1st- and 2nd-floor sash windows with glazing bars, projecting sills with cast-iron anthemion pattern guards to those on 1st-floor centre and end sections. INTERIOR: some contemporary plasterwork said to remain on some ceilings inside. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: steps up to doors with wrought-iron hand rails (mostly replaced). Unusual to this area for general scale of conception.

Listing NGR: TQ3502277257

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Legacy System number:: 470784
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.