53-63, BEDFORD ROAD SW4

BEDFORD ROAD SW4 1. (east side) 5023 Nos 53 to 63 (odd) TQ 3075 17/33

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1. 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