Good Hope
GOOD HOPE, 2, HIGHBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031862
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Good Hope
- Statutory Address:
- GOOD HOPE, 2, HIGHBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031862
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Good Hope
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOOD HOPE, 2, HIGHBURY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GOOD HOPE, 2, HIGHBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Merton (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 24390 71172
Details
1329/0/10055 HIGHBURY ROAD
21-AUG-02 2
Good Hope
II
House. Designed and built in 1905 by the architect Spencer Carey Curtis (1865-1945) for Petrus Cornelius van den Poel Hiddingh in "Cape Dutch"style. Painted stucco. Pitched hipped green slate roof with projecting eaves and tall stuccoed chimneys with wide cornice.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys and basement, flat dormer through gutter. Seven bays wide, penultimate bays projecting from front and back in coped Dutch gables above vestigial pilaster capitals. Front entrance in curved Tuscan columned porch in right projecting bay, name over. Front door has leaded stained glass panels either side. Windows metal-framed, Diocletian to right of entrance and same position on garden front extended into French window. Venetian windows to both projecting bays, front and back. Upper floors have smaller windows under eaves and small circular ones in end bays. Wide flat dormer to east, eaves lower. Rear elevation has a central Tuscan colonnade and a later C20 conservatory added.
INTERIOR: Oak staircase with splat balusters and gallery, original oak panelled doors to study and living room and architraves, living room fireplace, wood block floors, all skirtings, door and window ironmongery, plinth blocks and mantelpieces.
HISTORY: This house was clearly inspired by "Groote Schur", designed by Herbert Baker for Cecil Rhodes in Westbrook Cape Town in 1900, the prototype of the revival of the Cape Dutch style. Curtis was in Cape Town while "Groote Schur" was being built and it is known that his wife Edith painted "Groote Schur".
[North east Perspective of "Good Hope" in Priaulx Library Guernsey.]
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489756
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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