Essex County Cricket Pavilion
ESSEX COUNTY CRICKET PAVILION, LEYTON HIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386803
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Essex County Cricket Pavilion
- Statutory Address:
- ESSEX COUNTY CRICKET PAVILION, LEYTON HIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386803
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Essex County Cricket Pavilion
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESSEX COUNTY CRICKET PAVILION, LEYTON HIGH ROAD
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:
- ESSEX COUNTY CRICKET PAVILION, LEYTON HIGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Waltham Forest (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 37904 87214
Details
TQ 38 NE
1802/2/10016
LEYTON HIGH ROAD
(West Side)
Leyton
Former Essex County Cricket Pavilion
II
Cricket pavilion. 1886 by Richard Creed for the Essex County Cricket Club. Rendered and colourwashed timber frame over a brick basement; machine tile roof. Vernacular Revival style.
EXTERIOR: north elevation of main block of 2 storeys; 9-window bays to ground floor. Ground-floor verandah under the eaves of the hipped roof supported on square-section timber posts with arched braces to the arcade plate. Central half-glazed door, and a double-leaf door replacing a window in third bay from left, inserted 1935. Windows are 9116 horned sashes. Framing the openings are the exposed studs and rails of the frame. At extreme ends of the elevation are doors added in 1935 opening into storerooms created when the 2-bay east and west verandah returns were blocked.
First floor in the form of an elaborated dormer with half-timbered end gables and a tatter central gable rising out of a hipped roof and crowned with a square open cupola with a domed top and weathervane. Overhanging eaves supported on square timber posts, in 2 registers under the central hip. Continuous frieze of 8 25-paned windows plus a central half-glazed double-leaf door. End gables with similar doors both flanked by 15-paned windows either side.
Side pavilions have a central glazed door flanked by 12112 horned sashes, set under a hipped roof with overhanging eaves supported on square-section timber posts. Between the pavilions and the centre block are boarded single-storey links added in 1935.
Rear, south, elevation composed of a central twin gabled element fitted with 2 4-light casements, above which rises the taller central gable, with one 2-light casement in the attic. One tripartite dormer window to main roof slope either side.
INTERIOR: central ground-floor room (tong room) with widened openings east and west into home (west) and visitors' (east) changing rooms. First-floor players'room (centre) and committee room to west both with plank-lined walls and boarded ceilings. 2 further rooms to east. Roof of A-frame trusses.
Listing NGR: TQ3790487214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474202
- 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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