The Blackfriars Settlement and Attached Railings
THE BLACKFRIARS SETTLEMENT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-47, NELSON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385713
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Blackfriars Settlement and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- THE BLACKFRIARS SETTLEMENT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-47, NELSON SQUARE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385713
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Blackfriars Settlement and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BLACKFRIARS SETTLEMENT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-47, NELSON SQUARE
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:
- THE BLACKFRIARS SETTLEMENT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-47, NELSON SQUARE
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 31760 79874
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3179 NELSON SQUARE 636-1/4/527 (South side) 27/09/72 Nos.44-47 (Consecutive) The Blackfriars Settlement and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: NELSON SQUARE Nos.44-47 (Consecutive) The Blackfriars Settlement)
II
Terrace of 4 houses. c1807-1810. Possibly by SP Cockerell. Stock brick with parapet, Nos 45 & 47 with banded, rusticated stuccoed ground floors. Nos 44-46: 5 storeys and sunken basement, 3 bays each. No.47: 4 storeys and sunken basement, 3 bays. Doors to Nos 45 & 47 round-arched with fluted, Doric columns, cornice heads, fluted pilaster jambs and fanlights. Doors to former Nos 44 & 46 now altered to windows. Tightly spaced fenestration: flat, gauged-brick arches to sash windows with glazing bars except on ground-floor of Nos 45 & 47 where the arches are segmental with struck voussoirs in stucco. The 2 left-hand windows to No.47 are in slightly projecting, full-height bow section. Wrought-iron balcony on iron brackets along 1st floor of all 4 houses. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: original spearhead railings with urn finials. The last few surviving houses of the square of c1807-1810.
Listing NGR: TQ3176079874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471119
- 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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