Description

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TQ 3875
14/271

GILMORE ROAD SE13
Telephone Exchange

II

1909-1910 by Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes (1858-1925). Three storeys, four windows. Top storey appears to be a later addition in multicoloured stock brick with stone coped parapet and gauged brick arches to flush frame hinged windows with glazing bars. These rest on stone coping of original parapet. Two lower floors of multicoloured stock brick with red brick dressings, ie gauged brick window arches, window jambs, panels of banding between lst and ground floor windows; and angles of building. Flat, stone pilasters within angles rest on stone-coped plinth and rise through moulded stone cornice and stone-coped red brick parapet to end in small capitals. Flush framed sash windows with glazing bars. One storey, one-bay left entrance extension banded in red brick. Seven steps, with stone coped and banded side wall, to five-panel door under gauged red brick arch. Similar three-bay rear extension without pilasters or cornice.

Listing NGR: TQ3872575166

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)