Latitude: 51.522 / 51°31'19"N
Longitude: -0.0756 / 0°4'32"W
OS Eastings: 533605
OS Northings: 182092
OS Grid: TQ336820
Mapcode National: GBR W8.4L
Mapcode Global: VHGR0.M0WL
Plus Code: 9C3XGWCF+QP
Entry Name: Bedford House, Formerly the Bedford Institute Association
Listing Date: 3 August 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1357579
English Heritage Legacy ID: 206583
ID on this website: 101357579
Location: Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, London, E1
County: London
District: Tower Hamlets
Electoral Ward/Division: Spitalfields & Banglatown
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Tower Hamlets
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Christ Church Spitalfields
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: House
The following building shall be added:
QUAKER STREET
TQ 3382
(south side)
788-/8/10028 Bedford House, formerly the
Bedford Institute Association
II
Also known as: Bedford House, formerly Bedford Institute
Association WHEELER STREET.
Mission building run by the Quaker Bedford Institute
Association, 1894 to designs by Rutland Saunders. Red brick
(from Rowlands Castle Brick Fields) in English bond and glazed
brick, with brick, Monks Park stone and terracotta dressings.
Roofs of slate, with a pair of ogee capped venilators; five
pedimented dormers to the return. Two storeys and attic.
Three-window, gable-facing range to Quaker Street, with stair
range under Dutch gable to right. Returning at oblique angle
to Wheeler Street: five-window range before gable-facing,
shallow projecting bay of four windows; facing gable has three
storeys; stair range to rear party wall. All openings are
segmental or round arched, with voussoirs of stone and brick
aprons; the surface is articulated by a series of sill,
springing and storey bands; the ranges by shallow brick piers.
Main entrance in centre of facing gable to Quaker Street, set
in two-storey aedicule consisting of pilasters to broken
pediment with oriel above, all set in two-storey, arched
recess; the aedicule made from stone or stucco and painted;
metal sign bracket projecting from broken pediment. Second
entrance to stair range at right. Service entrance in second
range from corner, flat-arched, set under sill of ground-floor
window; entrance in stair range to rear of site. Railings
enclose small area at foot of return wall. Gable facing range
with paired windows to each floor. Parapet to roof on
five-window range return with inset panels of terracotta
ornament; scrollwork to shallow pediments of dormers above.
Listing NGR: TQ3360582092
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