Wandsworth Prison Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Gatehouse.
Wandsworth Prison Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-terrace-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wandsworth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1983
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HEATHFIELD ROAD SW18 1. 5033 Wandsworth Prison gatehouse TQ 27SE 4/14 II 2. 1849-51 by D R Hill. A 3-bay composition with Cyclopaean detailing and comprising a low arched entrance bay flanked by twin windowed 3-storey towers. It is of pale gault bricks with stone dressings. The round-headed arch has a triple-stepped architrave interrupted by vermiculated keystone and voussoirs. It is flanked by rusticated pylons rising to a cornice and blocking course, the cornice modillioned above the arch. Tne windows of the towers are round-headed, the architraves having impost blocks and keystones. Each tower rises to a modillion cornice and blocking course. The pylons flanking the centre bay are repeated at the outer angles of the towers.
Listing NGR: TQ2679473948
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