Numbers 13-16 Vincent Square, at Former RAF Biggin Hill

NUMBERS 13-16 VINCENT SQUARE, AT FORMER RAF BIGGIN HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1391597
Date first listed:
01-Dec-2005
List Entry Name:
Numbers 13-16 Vincent Square, at Former RAF Biggin Hill
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 13-16 VINCENT SQUARE, AT FORMER RAF BIGGIN HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1391597
Date first listed:
01-Dec-2005
List Entry Name:
Numbers 13-16 Vincent Square, at Former RAF Biggin Hill
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 13-16 VINCENT SQUARE, AT FORMER RAF BIGGIN HILL

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 13-16 VINCENT SQUARE, AT FORMER RAF BIGGIN HILL

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Bromley (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 41105 60975

Details

WESTERHAM

771/0/10083 FORMER RAF BIGGIN HILL 01-DEC-05 Nos 13 -16 Vincent Square, at Former R AF Biggin Hill

GV II Terrace of four houses, part of group of 26. Dated 1929, by the Air Ministry's Directorate of Works and Buildings. Painted brickwork, cavity walls, slate roofs, lead to bay windows.

PLAN: A short straight terrace in two storeys, hipped roof to right and gable to the left. Each dwelling entered to the right, with living, dining and kitchen ground floor, and three bedrooms; originally with four open fireplaces, two to each floor, on party wall to left. Terrace lies to W side of the Square near the N end.

EXTERIOR: Windows generally plain wooden sash, in half-brick reveals and to concrete sub-sills. At first floor four windows, separated by narrow brick piers, and the outer lights narrower than the centre; below these a canted flat-roofed bay, with brick mullions, large central and smaller side-lights. To the right, on two steps a flush panelled door with square glazed top panel, under a flat concrete hood with roll-mould edge, and on concrete brackets. Large ridge stacks, to the left of each house, and end stack to the left; the stacks have deep stepped cappings.

End returns are plain, and the back has a double sash with brick mullion to the first floor, above a large replacement casement, a door L and a small side light. Datestone with carved date '1929'. Simple eaves to three sides and clipped gable verge to left.

INTERIOR: Not inspected; the houses restored by a Housing Association as part of the renovation of the whole Square.

HISTORY: This forms part of the best preserved group of married quarters, typically designed on Garden City principles, that predate the post-1934 Expansion Period of the RAF and relate to a nationally important historic aviation site. They are dated 1929, six of the houses having been demolished following the 1940 raids but still presenting a group of 26 planned as an elongated square around a central grassed area. Land for the new married quarters had been purchased in 1923-5.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
495990
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.

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