Description

BEDFORD ROAD SW4
1. (east side)
5023

Nos 53 to 63 (odd)
TQ 3075 17/33

II GV

2.
Circa 1870, in stock brick with creamy terra-cotta dressings, built by Jennings
as part of a larger scheme of houses of varying size and quality, to the designs
of T Collcutt. These are the most substantial houses after 'Rathcoole' in Ferndale
Road. Mixture of classical - Italian and Gothic motifs. Each house 4 storeys
and basement, 2 windows. Crisply and well detailed terra-cotta work: moulded
eaves cornice with deep brackets; pilasters with guilloche moulded panels to
third floor segment-headed windows; rusticated architraves to round-arched
second-floor windows. Canted bays through lower floors have leafy patterns
on lintels and floral capitals to pilasters. There are vermiculate rusticated
quoins and quasi-Corinthian prostyle porches with fluted and garlanded columns,
up 4 steps. Doors of 3 long and one wide panel, with rectangular fanlight.

Listing NGR: TQ3006875424

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082989

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  For the Record
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas