Stotfold (house)

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Stotfold
Stotfold Feb 2018.jpg
Stotfold, February 2018
TypeHouse
Coordinates 51°24′36″N0°02′27″E / 51.41008°N 0.04086°E / 51.41008; 0.04086 Coordinates: 51°24′36″N0°02′27″E / 51.41008°N 0.04086°E / 51.41008; 0.04086
Built1907
ArchitectThomas Phillips Figgis [1]

Stotfold is a 1907 Arts & Crafts house in Mavelstone Road in the London Borough of Bromley. It became a Grade II listed building in 1993 for being "of special architectural or historic interest considered to be of national importance and therefore worth protecting". [2]

A "huge baronial style house", [3] it was designed by Thomas Phillips Figgis, [4] [5] for John Roe Hickman of Buck & Hickman. [3] In the 1950s, it was converted into flats. [3]

It is featured in English Heritage's collection of architectural photography. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Stotfold, Mavelstone Road, Bromley, Greater London at Historic England
  2. STOTFOLD, at HistoricEngland; retrieved January 9, 2019
  3. 1 2 3 Stotfold, Mavelstone Road, Bickley, 1983, at Ideal Homes (University of Greenwich); retrieved January 9, 2019
  4. "London 2: South", by Cherry & Pevsner; Penguin 1983; in the "Buildings of England" series.
  5. The Builder , 12 June 1909, pp.706-7; archived at BritishListedBuildings