53, NORTHFIELD ROAD
53, NORTHFIELD ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387208
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 53, NORTHFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 53, NORTHFIELD ROAD
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2007-08-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/16015/16
- Rights:
- © Mr Steve Kirkland. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387208
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 53, NORTHFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, NORTHFIELD 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:
- 53, NORTHFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Ealing (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1658479734
Details
TQ 17 NE
962/5/10052
NORTHFIELD ROAD
No 53
II
Fruit store. Mid 1880s, converted to furniture depository in 1917 and probably strengthened. London stock brick with steel ceiling beams; slate roof. Supporting steel uprights added after 1904. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; south front is a 4-window range. Nearly symmetrical front consisting of a pair of sliding double timber doors to right of centre under a 3 x 11 paned overlight and brick relieving arch. To right and left are partly external stacks on the wall plane presented as pilaster strips. Altered doorway to ground floor at right of elevation. Fenestration of centre-hung 4 x 8 paned windows under segmental arches to ground and first floors, and 2 x 4 paned windows to the second floor under the eaves. West window bay with one 1950s ground-floor window and an 818 horned sash to first floor. Dentiled eaves cornice. Hipped roof.
West front is 6-window range, the 3 south window bays belonging to Ivy Cottage, originally the foreman's house, now in private occupation: 3-panelled door under plain overlight flanked by one 616 horned sash right and left under segmental heads. 3 similar first-floor sashes and 3 second-floor 6-paned centre-hung windows. Remaining 3 window bays to north similar to south front. Ridge stack right of centre.
North front with a single-storey outshut under a corrugated iron roof. 4 centre-hung windows to first floor irregularly spaced and 4 second-floor windows, smaller and also irregularly spaced. Over first-floor windows is a steel reinforcing beam. In centre rises a rectangular lift tower placed on the front wall plane and with the machine room lit by one of the 4 windows.
INTERIOR: double doors on south side lead to loading bay running south-north through ground floor. 5 x 3 bay steel frame consisting of I-section members, the verticals attached by angle brackets to the ceiling beams, riveted to the verticals, bolted to the beams. Ground-floor and first-floor uprights inserted after 1904, probably in 1917. Heavier section riveted steel ceiling beams of the mid 1880s. First-floor with 2-bay brick arcade. Manual lift made by Waygood-Otis Co. of London, the lift cage rebuilt in breeze block to the east wall on ground floor only, otherwise c. 1887. Timber gondola of c.1887. Roof of A-frame trusses with purlins.
The building is of particular interest for the mid 1880s steel ceiling beams.
Listing NGR: TQ1658479734
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475130
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 06-Jun-2026 at 19:08:13.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.