Description

BATTERSEA PARK ROAD
TQ 2776
(North side)
1207- /7/10029
Nos.2-11 (Consecutive)
Dovedale Cottages
II
GV
Almshouses, now arranged as flats. 1841 on behalf of Mrs Lightfoot and her daughter,
Mary, for'persons in reduced circumstances professing godliness'. White brick in Flemish
bond with cement dressings and slate roofs. Two storeys. Three-part symmetrical
composition with projecting centre section of three windows originally containing chapel
and taller than its surrounds. Entrance to No. 6 in this range is set under a four-centred
Tudor arch, other openings are flat arched. Two entrances to each lower wing on street
facade with single light windows on first-floor over, those nearest ends in dormers. The
other windows are three-light casements set in narrow mullions forming an alternating
pattern to the first floor, except that first-floor windows of centre block have mullions and
a transom; the window over centre entrance is an oriel, above which is a gable inset with
roundel depicting a dove bearing an olive branch. Apart from the central gable over the
former chapel, the roof is gabled to the returns and has boxed eaves to the front wall.
Lintel band to ground floor. Sill band to first floor. The fire wall of centre range has its
own parapet and coping above that of side ranges, where the gables also finish in a
parapet with coping. There are two stacks to each low side wing: one to the peak of the
parapet, the other near the fire wall of the centre range. The stacks to the latter range are
set in its parapet end walls.
This range forms the centrepiece of the group of almshouses, which form a distinguished
composition alongside the former St Stephen's church (q.v.)

Listing NGR: TQ2757776439

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26892551

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