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Latitude: 51.4616 / 51°27'41"N
Longitude: -0.1601 / 0°9'36"W
OS Eastings: 527915
OS Northings: 175226
OS Grid: TQ279752
Mapcode National: GBR 8Z.77
Mapcode Global: VHGR5.5JQF
Plus Code: 9C3XFR6Q+JX
Entry Name: Gilmore House
Listing Date: 28 June 1954
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1065563
English Heritage Legacy ID: 207021
ID on this website: 101065563
Location: Clapham Junction, Wandsworth, London, SW4
County: London
District: Wandsworth
Electoral Ward/Division: Shaftesbury
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Wandsworth
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Clapham Common St Barnabas
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: House
CLAPHAM COMMON COMMON
1.
5033
(north side)
SW11
No 113
(Gilmore House)
TQ 2775 9/11 28.6.54
II
2.
Mid-18th Century. Two storeys, basement and dormers.
Seven windows wide including central 3-window canted bay.
Later 3-window extension to east.
Brown brick with stone dressings.
Slate roofs.
Stepped door surround framing round-arched opening. Centre ground floor window of
bay with balustraded apron, round-arched sash in shaped architrave and bracketed
open pediment. The bay flanked by windows with crossette architrave, frieze,
cornice and pediment. Windows of the extension also have the full entablature but
only the centre tripartite window pedimented.
Continuous plinth, cillband and, above first floor, cyma-bracketed cornice.
Splayed faces of bay have recessed roundels, each housing a bust: one Shakespeare,
one Milton. Parapet with coping.
Mansard roof.
Higher parapet masks hipped roof of extension.
Stacks with oversailing courses.
GLC blue plaque erected 1977. Commemorates residence of John Walter, founder of
the Times newspaper.
Listing NGR: TQ2791575226
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