15, 16 and 17 Hatfields
15, 16 and 17, Hatfields
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385596
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 15, 16 and 17 Hatfields
- Statutory Address:
- 15, 16 and 17, Hatfields
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385596
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Feb-2011
- List Entry Name:
- 15, 16 and 17 Hatfields
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, 16 and 17, Hatfields
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:
- 15, 16 and 17, Hatfields
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 31487 80324
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 December 2023 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
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HATFIELDS (East side)
15, 16 AND 17
(Formerly listed as: HATFIELDS 15 AND 17)
01-JUL-88
II
Former printing works, flats at time of listing, 1905, by Frank Matcham. Later alterations including conversion to flats.
MATERIALS: Reinforced concrete frame on Hennebique (Mouchel) system with brick facade and stone dressings.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys, semi-basement and full attic storey, 16 bays wide with giant pilasters rising to round-headed windows at first-floor level except at end pairs of bays where ground-floor openings have round-headed arches with keystones and impost capitals; first-floor windows above treated similarly but with round opening in spandrel. Above first-floor cornice, parapet (with decorative line over end pairs of bays) containing square-headed attic windows with subsidiary cornice over all but those in end pairs of bays. One pair is blocked up. Windows have small panes and metal glazing bars. Alternate bays separated by rusticated brick pilaster strips breaking through string course above first-floor windows. Second bay from each end has monogrammed iron gates to entrance.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SOURCES: Twelvetrees W Noble, Concrete-Steel Buildings (1907) Concrete (1926)
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The former printing works at 15,16 and 17 Hatfields is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: an early example of reinforced concrete construction;
* Architectural interest: a vast frontage, articulated by a giant order of classical pilasters in good quality brickwork.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470999
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Noble Twelvetrees, W, Concrete Steel Buildings, (1907)
Concrete in Concrete, (1926)
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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