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Telegraph Hill conservation area character appraisal d Telegraph Hill conservation area character appraisal Telegraph Hill conservation area Summary of Special Interest The Telegraph Hill Conservation Area has a hillside location on the slopes of Telegraph Hill. The conservation area encloses a well preserved planned development of late 19th century terraces and pairs of houses built under the control of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. The Haberdashers’ Company’s development of a full community also includes church, schools and public park, all of which remain in their original use. The area’s uniform and cohesive architectural character is based around two main house types (two- and three-storey) built to standardised designs within approximately 30 years between 1870-1900. The houses are good examples of late 19th century middle class houses and villas with many surviving design features such as vertical sliding sash timber windows, robust part-glazed front doors, two-storey canted bays, recessed front doors, pitched slate roofs and decorative brickwork. Numerous original architectural details survive such as glazed decorative porch tiles, foliated capitals, cast-iron railings, tiled front paths and clay chimney pots. The estate’s original street layout remains intact and nearly all of the original 19th century houses survive (a few have been lost to wartime bomb damage). Being in good condition and relatively unaltered externally, all of the 19th century buildings make a positive contribution to the special character and appearance of the conservation area. The area contains fi ve listed buildings: Robert Aske’s statue in the forecourt of Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Boys’ School and four K2 type 1920s red telephone kiosks. Key non-residential buildings of the Haberdashers’ development are Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Boys’ School (1875), Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Girls’ School (1891), Public House (No. 1 Kitto Road) (c.1890) and St Catherine’s Church (1894). Other key buildings are the former London Board School in Waller Road (1887) and New Cross Fire Station (1894). The area’s most significant public open space is Telegraph Hill Park, a ten acre late Victorian public park formally opened in 1895 and re-opened after extensive restoration works in 2005. From Upper Park, the highest point of Telegraph Hill about 50 metres above sea level, there are views to the north west of landmark buildings in the centre of London. Trees are a particular feature of the area, particularly roadside trees and those found in St Catherine’s churchyard, Telegraph Hill Park and the railway cuttings. Verdant railway cuttings and unusually large areas of undeveloped back-to-back rear gardens add to the green ambience of the area. 1 Contents Introduction 4 The conservation area today 4 Planning policy 4 Public consultation and adoption 4 1 History of the area 6 2 Form and character of the area 13 Spatial character 13 Views 14 Streetscape 16 The natural environment 17 3 Buildings of interest and character areas 18 Character area 1: The Haberdashers’ Company’s late 19th century development of Telegraph Hill comprising (a) Telegraph Hill and (b) New Cross Road and Queens Road; 20 Character area 2: Mid 19th century and later development in Dennett’s Road, Mona Road and Lausanne Road; 26 Character area 3: Good quality late 19th century development outside of the control of the Haberdashers’ Company comprising (a) Reservoir Road, Vesta Road and Sandbourne Road and (b) eastern lengths of Pendrell Road and Drakefell Road; 27 Character area 4: Railway cuttings now designated nature reserves comprising (a) New Cross Gate Cutting and (b) Nunhead Cutting; 30 4 Materials and details 33 5 The condition of the conservation area 37 Useful Contacts 38 Bibliography 39 Telegraph Hill Character Area Map 19 Telegraph Hill townscape appraisal map 32 3 Introduction Telegraph Hill Conservation Area was level course of Queens Road and New Cross Road designated in 1990. The main body of the (part of the major roads A202 and A2 respectively), conservation area was developed by the from where the land rises southwards to the public Worshipful Company of Haberdashers during park at the top of Telegraph Hill at c. 50 metres the later part of the nineteenth century. above sea level. The Telegraph Hill Conservation Area is an The conservation area measures 0.77 square exemplar of a late Victorian planned residential kilometres in area (c.200 acres) and contains suburb that included (and still includes) approximately 2,600 buildings. It was developed as schools, places of worship and public parks all a residential estate and remains so today. Though designed and built as an integral part of the the 19th century houses were built for occupation neighbourhood. by single families, many have now been divided into Conservation areas are designated by the fl ats or student accommodation. Late 20th century Council for their special architectural or blocks of flats occupy the sites of major World War historic character and appearance. Character II bomb damage in Ommaney Road and Erlanger Appraisals are written to provide information Road. on this special character. However, they are There is a row of shops between nos. 256 to 268 not comprehensive studies and any omissions New Cross Road and a large London Bus depot do not therefore imply that an element does with space for up to 300 buses located between not contribute to the character of the area. Troutbeck Road and Pepys Road. Further west along this busy highway stands the New Cross Fire Station. The area also includes three schools/ The conservation area colleges, a corner shop, a public house, community today centre and café, surgery, public park and at least three active places of worship. The area is bounded The Telegraph Hill Conservation Area is located to south and east by railways whose leafy deep mainly on the slopes of Telegraph Hill in south-east cuttings have been designated sites of nature London. The northern boundary is formed by the conservation importance. Semi-detached house in Erlanger Road Paired houses in a terrace in Waller Road 4 Telegraph Hill conservation area character appraisal Queens Road and New Cross Road are busy highways with the accompanying adverse impact Public consultation and of noise and air pollution. With the exception of a adoption secondary vehicular through route along Lausanne Road (A2214), Gellatly Road and Drakefell Road This appraisal is part of a wider review of the (B2142), other roads within the conservation area management of Telegraph Hill Conservation are generally quiet and carry low levels of traffi c. Area which was carried out by the Conservation and Design team and their consultants, The Conservation Studio in 2007. The review included Planning policy this appraisal, a review of the boundaries of the conservation area, the adoption of locally listed The Council has a duty to formulate and publish buildings and measures to control alterations proposals for conservation areas and to pay special to houses in the conservation area. Public attention to the desirability of preserving or consultation was carried out on these matters enhancing the character of such areas. Character in September and October 2007 in accordance appraisals are a material consideration in the with the Council’s Statement of Community planning process and are used when determining Involvement. Following support from local planning applications and appeals. Other planning residents, this appraisal was adopted by the Mayor policies may also be taken into consideration when and his Cabinet on 19 March 2008. An Article we consider planning applications and these are 4(2) direction was also made to control external available in our Unitary Development Plan and our alterations of houses in order to preserve or emerging Local Development Framework. enhance the character of the area. This direction came into effect on 9 April 2008. Six buildings and three boundary markers were locally listed following the review and the boundary of the conservation area was not changed. Three storey house in Queens Road Nos. 157 and 159 Jerningham Road 5 1 History of the area The manor of Hatcham- Bavant or Hatcham-Barnes in which Telegraph Hill is situated is an off-shoot of the manor of Hatcham. The parent manor was, at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086 in the hands of the Bishop of Lisieux and its assets were recorded as 3 hides, 3 ploughs, 6 acres of meadow and woodland worth 3 hogs. The name Hatcham is Anglo-Saxon and may be derived from ‘Hacci’s village’ or ‘the village clearing in the woods’. The semaphore telegraph station c. 1800 A succession of owners held the manor of Hatcham, including the Crown, until in 1614 it was bought by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers is one of the ancient guilds of the City of London. It has its roots in a medieval fraternity, a group of people who lived in the same area doing the same sort of work and who worshipped at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Haberdashers traded ribbons, beads, purses, Pepys Road at the start of the 20th century gloves, pins, caps and toys, and later hats as well. The Company had the right to search all haberdashers’ shops within three miles of the City, and to destroy goods which were not up to standard. 6 Telegraph Hill conservation area character appraisal By 1650 the population of London had grown to such an extent that it was no longer possible to control the haberdashery trade and, over a period of time, the Company moved away from its historical involvement in the trade of haberdashery and developed into a supporter of schools and education in England and Wales. The Hatcham estate, an immense area of farming land stretching from North Peckham to Brockley, was bought to provide an endowment for William Jones’ school and almshouses Part of the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College, formerly the in Monmouth, Wales.

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