Schedule 5 Conservation Areas

Protected by : Policies URB 15 - Conservation Areas; URB 16 - New Development, Changes of Use and Alterations to Buildings in Conservation Areas; and URB 17 - Demolition in Conservation Areas; and as shown on the Proposals Map

1. Forest Hill (Map Ref B7/C7/B8/C8)
Designated in 1976. Development dates from the last 19th century. Facades are lively and represent a cross section of contemporary architectural fashion. Materials range from typical London stock brick and plaster with slate roofs to red brick Tudor revival mansions with steep tiled roofs and leaded casement windows, evocative of a rural tradition.

2. Sydenham Hill (Map Ref B8)
Designated in 1976. This area has a mix of building style and character, distinctive but varied in form and of good quality. It is mainly residential in character with some of the two storey terraced housing arranged around open space. The houses are constructed predominantly in yellow stock brick, with slate roofs and timber windows.

3. Halifax Street (Map Ref B8/B9)
Designated in 1972. This small area comprises mid 19th century semi-detached flat fronted houses. The style is simple, with little ornamentation using London stock brick, with slate roofs and timber windows.

4. Jews Walk (Map Ref B9/C9)
Designated in 1973. The area consists of semi-detached villas in a Gothic Revival style, exhibiting high quality craftsmanship. The villas are built in red brick with darker diaper patterns with stone dressings, mullioned casement windows and steeply pitched slate roofs.

5. Hatcham (Map Ref C3/C4)
Designated in 1990. The whole area was developed in the 1870s with terraced housing, light industry and railway works. Early 19th century houses have been extended at the front to form shops. The terraced housing is of simple design, ranging from flat fronted with parapets and valley roofs, front to back pitched slate roofs, and ground floor front bay windows.

6. Telegraph Hill (Map Ref C4/D4/C5/D5)
Designated in 1990. The housing estate roads were laid out and built in stages over thirty years from the late 19th century, using a typical architectural style of the period. Various standard house types, ranging from large detached and semi-detached villas to more modest long terraces were arranged in hierarchical fashion. Due to its close proximity to Hatcham it became the middle class part of the Hatcham Estate.

7. Sydenham Park (Map Ref C8/C9)
Designated in 1973. Development took place in stages during the latter half of the 19th century, with a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced housing. Constriction is mainly of London stock yellow brick, stuccoed dressings, plaster decorations and slate roofs. The area has a peaceful Gothic revival character and retains a degree of original integrity.

8. Brockley (Map Ref D4/E4/D5/E5)
Designated in 1973. This is the third largest conservation area in the borough and includes Hilly Fields. The earliest development took place in the 1840s with the terraces on Rokeby Road. In the 1870s grand detached villas were built with coach and stabling mews. It also contains significant three storey Victorian terraces some with traditional shop fronts in commercial areas. The western section of the Conservation Area has some of the oldest surviving buildings in Brockley.

9. Stanstead Grove (Map Ref D7)
Designated in 1975. This is the smallest conservation area in the borough, comprising ten properties in two terraces. The frontages are plain rendered and painted under pitched slate roofs with simple eaves and gutter details creating a simple cottage character.

10. Perry Fields (Map Ref D8)
Designated in 1975. The area comprises late 19th century two storey detached houses. All groups of houses are of similar material, proportions and carefully controlled Italianate vocabulary. Walls are of typical London amber stock brick, with windows and door dressings in moulded plasterwork incorporating debased classical style pilasters. The gently sloping topography and curving streets provide a graceful, ever changing perspective.

11. Deptford High Street (Map Ref E3/E4/D4)
Designated in 1976. The High Street has a medieval plan with narrow frontages and deep burghage plots. Although many of the present buildings are from later periods, the street retains a high degree of architectural merit from traditional proportions, materials, and window sizes. The buildings are mainly three storey. This is predominantly a commercial area with shop fronts on the ground floor and residential above. The shop frontages in particular possess a coherent urban grain with many architecturally significant buildings. The area was extended in 2000 to include a small section of New Cross Road.

12. Saint Paul’s (Map Ref E3)
Designated in 1975. The area adjoins Deptford High Street. It is distinguished by the classical St Paul’s church dated 1714 by Thomas Archer, with its surrounding of greenery and churchyard setting. Terraced houses in the area also contribute to the character of the area, in particular the early 18th century houses in Albury Street.

13. Brookmill Road (Map Ref E4)
Designated in 1972. The area comprises some 360 two storey worker’s and artisan’s terraced houses. Construction is of London stock brick, with timber double hung sash windows and valley roofs concealed by parapets. A rhythmic series of roof pitches are of visual interest.

14. St. Johns (Map Ref E4)
Designated in 1976. The area centres on the historic group of St. John’s Church and Vicarage, the Welsh Presbyterian Church and St. John’s Church Hall. There are also many terraced houses of a similar period and style to Brookmill Conservation Area.

15. Somerset Gardens
Designated in 1972. This is a small secluded area in which groups of houses front on to an oval green. The groups are of differing styles, gable fronted with iron verandas or classically restrained facades.

16. Saint Mary’s (Map Ref E5/E6)
Designated in 1976. This small area comprises the historic Ladywell Village, and is also characterised by the concentration of large public and semi-public buildings. There are some mid to late 19th century terraced houses built in London stock brick with pitched slate roofs.

17. Culverley Green (Map Ref E7/E8/F7/F8)
Designated in 1990. This area was developed in a suburban form around the turn of the last century and is characterised by a grid layout pattern of wide tree lined streets. The houses are two storey semi-detached Edwardian in style, mainly of brick and stucco, with carved stone, plasterwork or terracotta enrichment.

18. Blackheath (Map Ref F4/F5/G4/G5)
Designated jointly with Greenwich in 1968. This was London’s first conservation area, and is Lewisham’s largest and most diverse in character. The areas possess outstanding qualities of townscape and special historical architecture which is enhanced by the wide-open spaces of the heath. The area was extended in 2001 to include 4 new sites around Belmont Hill and Belmont Park.

19. Mercia Grove (Map Ref F5)
Designated in 1975. A very small area comprising of two facing terraces of late 19th century two storey period style houses. It is located just to the east of the Lewisham Shopping Centre.

20. St. Stephens (Map Ref F5)
Designated in 1972. The area comprises of the church, vicarage, five storey terraces and houses in Cressingham Road, St Stephen’s Grove and Glanville Grove. The materials used consist of London stock brick, slate roofs and stuccoed door and window cases.

21. Lee Manor (Map Ref G6)
Designated in 1975. This was originally developed from a small rural community, and consists mainly of residential houses of a variety of types, sizes and styles with long rear gardens. Materials used include slate, London stock and red brick, with stucco detailing and ornamentation.

22. Deptford Town Hall (Map Ref D4)
Designated in 2000. The Deptford Town Hall area is historically one of the most important areas of Deptford as the formation of the new Borough of Deptford in 1895 allowed it to become the centre of local life. The pattern of a major route through the area significantly emphasised the pattern of development including the establishment of Deptford Town Hall. The area formed as a settlement at the meeting of three roads. The pattern of major routes has clear historical origins and in layout has not changed for at least 200 years.

23. Belmont (Map Ref F5)
Designated in 2001. The Belmont Conservation Area straddles the western end of Belmont Hill as it runs down to Lewisham Town Centre. To the south of the road and front on to it is a row of fine early mid-19th century villas, many listed Grade II. To the north of the road, within the former grounds of the Villa Belmont, lies a small development of 1907-9. The eclectic, exuberant, typically Edwardian house designs were used by the architect Reginald C. Fry ARIBA (1878-1932) as the basis for his entry to the 1912 Daily Mail ‘Home of the year’ competition.

24. Beckenham Place Park (Map Ref E10/F10)
Designated in 1993. Historic parkland, associated with the Grade II* Listed Mansion.

25. Sydenham Thorpes (Map Ref C9)
Designated in 2001. An Edwardian estate dating from 1901 – 1914, built on the site of the grounds of the Old House, Sydenham Road (demolished in 1902). A compact grid of modestly sized terraced and semi-detached houses lined along a grid-like network of roads. The varied design of the houses reflects the most popular of contemporary architectural influences, and detailing is of a high quality. Street trees and private gardens also make an important contribution to the character of the area, which has a strong period feel.