Chestnuts House is a Grade II* listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. A Georgian House. 5 related planning applications.
Chestnuts House
- WRENN ID
- stony-hinge-hyssop
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 38 NE 2/12 19.10.51
HOE STREET Walthamstow, E17 (west side) No 398(Chestnuts House) (formerly listed as No 398, Essex Technical College)
GV II*
Substantial detached house. 1745-7 (dates to lead rainwater heads). Stock brick, red dressings. Pitched tiled roof to parapet. 2 storeys and attic storey. To Hoe Street 7 bays with further recessed bay to right and additional wing beyond. Centre 3 bays more closely spaced than others, and set forward slightly with pediment. Cen- tral pedimented doorcase, early C19, stucco with Doric pilasters. Late C20 door. Brick band between storeys; main cornice of rubbled brick above first floor; subsi- diary cornice to attic. Segmental-headed windows, sashes, thick glazing bars. Blind semicircular window above pediment to attic. Six-bay, 2-storey wing recessed to right, with similar treatment and advanced stable wing attached to right of 3 bays with blind relieving arches. Original plan form survives. Interior: Paved stair hall; fine openwell staircase with turned balusters and stucco floral enrichment. Original panelling and cornices survive throughout, moulded to main rooms and simpler to servants' area, which also has dog-leg turned baluster staircase. Room to left of entrance with rich Rococo ceiling.
Listing NGR: TQ3747988427
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