Gentlemens Underground Lavatory and Above Ground Structures: Ventilation Shaft and Railings and 4 Bollards and Cattle Trough
GENTLEMENS UNDERGROUND LAVATORY AND ABOVE GROUND STRUCTURES: VENTILATION SHAFT AND RAILINGS AND 4 BOLLARDS AND CATTLE TROUGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389445
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Gentlemens Underground Lavatory and Above Ground Structures: Ventilation Shaft and Railings and 4 Bollards and Cattle Trough
- Statutory Address:
- GENTLEMENS UNDERGROUND LAVATORY AND ABOVE GROUND STRUCTURES: VENTILATION SHAFT AND RAILINGS AND 4 BOLLARDS AND CATTLE TROUGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389445
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Gentlemens Underground Lavatory and Above Ground Structures: Ventilation Shaft and Railings and 4 Bollards and Cattle Trough
- Statutory Address 1:
- GENTLEMENS UNDERGROUND LAVATORY AND ABOVE GROUND STRUCTURES: VENTILATION SHAFT AND RAILINGS AND 4 BOLLARDS AND CATTLE TROUGH
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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:
- GENTLEMENS UNDERGROUND LAVATORY AND ABOVE GROUND STRUCTURES: VENTILATION SHAFT AND RAILINGS AND 4 BOLLARDS AND CATTLE TROUGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lambeth (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31245 78354
Details
963/0/10116 KENNINGTON CROSS
04-OCT-01 Gentlemen's underground lavatory and a
bove ground structures: ventilation sh
aft, railings, 4 bollards and cattle t
rough
GV II
Gentlemen's public conveniences together with railings, ventilation shaft, four bollards and cattle trough. Circa 1900, built as a result of the 1891 Public Health/London Act by the local authority with fittings by Finch and Co. of Lambeth but horse trough by the Metropolitan Drinking Trough Association may be of c1880. Underground features include original white tiled walls, 10 urinal stalls with white porcelain bases and black marble modesty screens with ceramic roundels inscribed "B Finch and Co Limited, Sanitary Engineers, Lambeth SE", painted wooden cubicles, multi-coloured mosaic floor, attendant's kiosk with wooden panelling and high level cast iron water tank, each of the three glass panels having a generous bevelled edge. At the head of the steps are ornamental cast iron railings with spear railings with scroll design and octagonal corner piers with moulded bases and caps. The ventilation shaft is about 20 feet high of cast iron with circular shaft surmounted by crown-shaped moulding and a panelled square plinth inscribed "B Finch and Co Ltd Lambeth." Adjoining the railings is a rectangular stone cattle drinking trough inscribed "METROPOLITAN DRINKING FOUNTAIN & CATTLE TROUGH ASSOCIATION" on a lower dog trough with two curbing stones.
[Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner "The Buildings of England London 2: south. P368."]
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488104
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 2: South, (1983), 368
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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