Lodge And Boundary Walls To Barnardo'S

937/0/10070 TANNERS LANE 05-MAY-10 BARKINGSIDE Lodge and Boundary Walls to Barnardo's

GV II Lodge and boundary walls to Barnardo's Girls' Village Home, 1901, by RH Hill (FRIBA). Later alterations including replica iron railings and gates.

LODGE: Like the 22 girls' cottages the lodge is Old English in style, with a canted bay window, half-timbered gables with bargeboards, tile-hung upper storeys, and external stacks with tall brick chimneys. The interior was not inspected.

WALLS: Just the walls to the east of the site survive, built of blue and red bricks with square piers and (replica) iron railings in the upper part. At the entrance to the village the walls curve inwards and terminate in gate piers. The iron gates are replicas of the originals.

HISTORY: The Barnardo's site was originally bound by tall walls and was isolated from the suburb that grew up around it. This was the main entrance to the village from Barkingside Station, used by visiting royalty and by the parents of destitute children alike. It features in several historic photographs of the site, which show there were originally large boards on the walls flanking the gates painted with 'Dr Barnardo's Homes'.

SOURCES: Anon, My Cottage: A Story of Dr Barnardo's Village Home for Destitute Girls by M.E.S. (1884) Mrs Eyrie-Louise Barnardo and James Marchant, Memoirs of the late Dr Barnardo (1907) Janet Hitchman, They Carried the Sword (1966) National Portrait Gallery, The Camera and Dr Barnardo (1974) Gillian Wagner, 'Barnardo, Thomas John (1845-1905)' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) Plans and photographs in Redbridge Local Studies Library

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The lodge and eastern boundary wall at Barnardo's are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * historical associations: part of the Girls' Village Home at Barkingside, founded by Dr Barnardo in 1876; * historic interest: the lodge and walls indicate the extent of the historic site and evidence the degree to which the village was isolated from the rest of the Barkingside community; * architecture: the lodge is the Olde English style, and forms part of the setting of the similarly-styled cottage homes nearby; * group value: with the twenty-two cottages, Cairns Cottage and the Children's Church (qv).