Railings along pavement to the front of 30-34 Peckham Road
Railings along pavement to the front of 30-34, Peckham Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393944
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Railings along pavement to the front of 30-34 Peckham Road
- Statutory Address:
- Railings along pavement to the front of 30-34, Peckham Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393944
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Railings along pavement to the front of 30-34 Peckham Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- Railings along pavement to the front of 30-34, Peckham 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.
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:
- Railings along pavement to the front of 30-34, Peckham Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33282 76709
Reasons for Designation
The railings along the pavement of Peckham Road, fronting Nos. 30-34 Peckham Road, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Age and design: a surviving run of late Georgian railings and gate piers in an elegant design typical of the period. * Group value: with the Grade II listed Nos. 30-34 Peckham Road and the Grade II listed lamp post in the grounds.
Details
636-1/0/10150
Peckham
PECKHAM ROAD
Railings along pavement to the front of Nos. 30-34
03-SEP-10
GV
II
A set of C18 railings with C20 alterations, run east-west along the pavement edge in front of Nos. 30, 32 and 34 Peckham Road.
DESCRIPTION: The railings are cast-iron and set in a low stone plinth with some areas of concrete infill. They consist of square bars with alternating diamond shaped and blunt spike shaped heads. The standards have urn finials and dog-leg braces. At the centre of the run is a pair of large cast-iron arches, roughly reaching the height of the top rail, with decorative scrolled finials above. This appears to be the remains of gates to a former entrance, now modified to form part of the run.
At the eastern and western ends are two entrances, each with cast-iron gates of a later date with matching finials. Both are flanked by rusticated stone gate piers with stone caps, and cast-iron lamps set on decorative bases above.
HISTORY: The railings run along Peckham Road, between the pavement edge and the forecourt of Nos. 30, 32 and 34 Peckham Road. Nos. 30, 32 and 34 Peckham Road, later known as Camberwell House, were originally built as three substantial houses in 1790. Nos. 30 and 32 was occupied as a school under the direction of one Mr Wanostrocht and originally named Alfred House. It was later sold to the Royal Navy and became the first Royal Naval School. Funded purely by voluntary contribution, the Navy School's purpose was to educate 'the sons of those naval and marine officers whose scanty incomes did not allow them to provide a first-rate education for their boys' (from "Camberwell" in Edward Walford's Old and New London, 1878).
When the Royal Naval School relocated in 1846, Alfred House was re-named Camberwell House and converted to a private mental asylum by one John Hayball Paul. It closed in 1955, from which time the building was occupied by Southwark Borough Council and used as offices.
SOURCES:
N. Pevsner & B. Cherry, The Buildings of England. London 2: South, 1994
E. Walford, Camberwell in Old and New London, vol 6 1878 pp269-286
Images of Chamberlain House held at Southwark Local History Library
Case books relating to Chamberlain House Asylum located in the Wellcome Library (GB 0120 MSS.6220-6221)
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION:
The railings along the pavement of Peckham Road, fronting Nos. 30-34 Peckham Road, are designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Age and design: a surviving run of late Georgian railings and gate piers
* Group value: with the Grade II listed Nos. 30-34 Peckham Road and the Grade II listed lamp post in the grounds.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 508102
- 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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