Mission House

Mission House, West Street, Harrow, HA1 3EH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390567
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: Mission House
Statutory Address:: Mission House, West Street, Harrow, HA1 3EH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390567
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: Mission House
Statutory Address 1:: Mission House, West Street, Harrow, HA1 3EH

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Mission House, West Street, Harrow, HA1 3EH

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Harrow (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 15060 87266

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 November 2023 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

1157/0/10066

WEST STREET Mission House

(Formerly listed as 69-75, Former St Mary's Mission Hall, previously listed as: West Street Plastics Works, formerly St Mary's Mission Hall)

13.08.03

II

Former Church Hall. 1884-1885 by E. S. Prior. Later used as an industrial premises, converted to residential use from 2019.

MATERIALS: red brick, terracotta window surrounds and plaque, tiled roof.

PLAN: rectangular, with a projecting entrance tower to the south-east.

EXTERIOR: three-bay front to street. South-east entrance bay projects forward. Arched entrance beneath moulded arch with keystone. Two-light window beneath depressed arch over, with raised quoins: the mullions and inner surrounds are of terracotta blocks. Upswept parapet over. Two bay front to left with a five-light window on the ground floor (new restoration to original design, replacing a later loading bay). To first floor, a pair of three-light windows with similar terracotta surrounds and mullions, but with arched central lights; these are set beneath triple-headed arches. Above is a moulded gable with a central pediment, carried on scrolled sides, with a shell-headed plaque bearing the date 1884. Tall chimneystack to left side, sloping right side (along passage) with a door flanked by a single-light window and a semi-circular opening; above is a four-light window. The gabled rear has two doors and a window (formerly three windows) to the lower ground floor and large tripartite mullioned windows with arched central lights.

INTERIOR: now in residential use and not inspected.

HISTORY: this is an early work of the noted architect, Edward Schroder Prior (1852-1932), and closely resembles his now-demolished house of 1884, Manor Lodge, in terms of style and material. Built to serve St Mary's church as a parish mission room, it is an unusual example of the genre and shows Prior's unusual blend of historical influences and idiosyncratic novelty. Prior, an Old Harrovian, had studied in Norman Shaw's office and was an important figure in the emerging Arts and Crafts movement. This is also a relatively early architectural use of terracotta.

SOURCES: H. Conway and O. Gerrish, 'E.S. Prior (OH)' (Harrow School exhibition catalogue 1999).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 490515
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.