University of London Boathouse

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON BOATHOUSE, 81, HARTINGTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388311
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
University of London Boathouse
Statutory Address:
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON BOATHOUSE, 81, HARTINGTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388311
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
University of London Boathouse
Statutory Address 1:
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON BOATHOUSE, 81, HARTINGTON ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON BOATHOUSE, 81, HARTINGTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Hounslow (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 19874 77270

Details

TQ 1977 HARTINGTON ROAD
No.81
787/18/10078 University of London
Boathouse

II


Boathouse, 1936 by Thompson and Walford, for the University of London. Reinforced concrete frame, flat concrete roofs, shuttering clearly visible on the south elevation. Single storey, with first and second floors over. Crittall metal frame windows except to bar and lounge and upper floor flat, replaced in plastic or timber. Lower level, ten boathouse entrances with rolling shutter doors. Eight-oar rowing tank. Above, single storey lounge and bar with tubular steel rail to roof; to rear and side, gym, changing rooms and offices, the latter with simple tubular steel rail to roof. Paved terrace over boathouses, with tubular steel rail. Upper floor appartment. External stair to first floor of south elevation and from north end of terrace to ground floor.
Architecture Illustrated, 1952, p. 10
Cherry and Pevsner, Buildings of England, London 3: Northwest, 1991, p. 411.



Listing NGR: TQ1987477270

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London 3 North West, (1991), 411

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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.

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