OAKBEAMS (INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS)

OAKBEAMS (INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS), 17, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390497
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-2003
List Entry Name:: OAKBEAMS (INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS)
Statutory Address:: OAKBEAMS (INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS), 17, THE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390497
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-2003
List Entry Name:: OAKBEAMS (INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS)
Statutory Address 1:: OAKBEAMS (INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS), 17, THE GREEN

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: OAKBEAMS (INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS), 17, THE GREEN

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Enfield (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29810 93397

Details

790/0/10095 THE GREEN 04-JUL-03 Southgate 17 Oakbeams (including boundary walls)

GV II Large detached house and related boundary walls. 1929-31. Paul Badcock FRIBA, architect. Two and a half storeys. Red brick with half timbering, tiled roof. EXTERIOR: irregular front with a projecting gabled range to the right of the entrance. Rectangular windows with leaded lights and timber mullions. Herringbone brickwork infill to the central gable. Soldier course at first floor level of angle-set bricks. Small dormers to attic. Large brick chimneystacks. Rear elevation with a gabled projection at the southern end with rough elm boarding over the projecting oriel window of the master bedroom at first floor level; the high pitched roof of the central section rises up from first floor level through two rows of dormer windows. Lower ranges to either side, beneath jettied elm-boarded gable ends. INTERIOR: features of note include a double-height entrance hall with gallery and exposed timbers, carved panels to the uprights depicting birds, flowers, women and a sentry, decorative plasterwork and a fireplace with a brick surround, tiled decoration and a tapering hood. To the left of the front door is a fine inscription tablet of Hopton Wood stone, reading 'Of earth's fullness are my parts of iron and oakbeams stone and clay to shelter hearts for aye', beneath a relief of an oak branch. Dining room with a fireplace with a granite and oak surround. Oak staircase with L-shaped landing. Upper bedrooms include one (described as the boy's bedroom in early accounts) with carved oak figures of Long John Silver and Robinson Crusoe, beneath the inscription 'O to be up and doing!'; in the master bedroom are carved oak figures of angels. A panelled room on the second floor was formerly known as the Monk's Room. ADDITIONAL FEATURES: the brick boundary wall incorporates earlier fabric (probably 18th century) alongside gabled niches. The front wall incorporates wrought iron grilles and is inscribed OAKBEAMS MCMXXIX; on the inside of the wall is a stone panel with lettering reading 'Let me live in my house by the side of the road while the races of men go by'. Two carved oak posts supporting lanterns stand in front of the house. HISTORY: built for George Cole, a graphic designer and artist's agent, Oakbeams is an unusually elaborate example of a 'Stockbroker Tudor' inter-war suburban house. It retains many of its original decorative fixtures which are of a high standard: the carver of the woodwork, Herbert Joseph Cribb, was an associate of Eric Gill's; he signed much of the carved work here, which is dated 1931. The fusion of tradition, sentiment and romance is noteworthy and casts interesting light on suburban culture at the time of the Great Depression. The interior was largely remodelled in 1935 by the prestigious form of Gordon Russell Ltd: some of these fittings were sold in 1973, when the dining room was acquired by the Geffrye Museum for display. SOURCES: Decoration, May 1935; Clive Aslet, 'Heart of Oak, Veneered', Country Life Sept 15 1983, 668-69.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 490376
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Country Life' in 15 September, (1983), 668-669

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.