Turquoise
TURQUOISE, 42, THE BISHOPS AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063904
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Turquoise
- Statutory Address:
- TURQUOISE, 42, THE BISHOPS AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063904
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Turquoise
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURQUOISE, 42, THE BISHOPS AVENUE
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:
- TURQUOISE, 42, THE BISHOPS AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Barnet (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26937 88499
Details
31/0/10424 THE BISHOP'S AVENUE
19-MAR-02 42
Turquoise
II
'Turquoise', 42 The Bishop's Avenue
Suburban house in the Queen Anne Revival style. 1913 by Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Brewer. Brown brick with red brick dressings, white-painted woodwork, tiled roof.
PLAN: Rectangular five-bay house of two storeys with attic, flanked by lower wings to either side; garage linked with courtyard to north side.
EXTERIOR: entrance front with projecting canted entrance bay. Rusticated brick quoins to sides. Double doors set below a segmental hood carried on moulded consoles; oval windows to either side. Over door is a tall 28-pane mullion and transom window lighting the stair-well inside. Two windows to each floor on either side set within cut brick surrounds with keystones: those to ground floor with mullion and transom, 4-panes to upper, 6-panes to lower register. First floor windows are eight-pane casements. Eaves cornice; stone plat band to central bay. Hopper-heads with date of 1913 amid decorative scrollwork. Tall chimneystacks to either side and to centre; dormer windows either side of raised centre, which has a Venetian window surrounded by tile-hanging, behind railings to front of bay at parapet height. Garden bay with central door (with French Windows) set below shallow segmental hood with keystone. 9/9-pane windows with shutters to ground floor; similar 6/6-pane ones to first floor. Four dormer windows to attic. Kitchen wing to north, former (?) billiard room wing to south, each with gabled ends containing arched windows to entrance front, oval windows to garden front. Garage to north with weatherboarded gable, set behind tile-decorated gate piers.
INTERIOR: altered, but retaining certain key features. Panelled oak entrance lobby; oak staircase runs over entrance, around sides of canted central bay: square newel posts, turned column and vase balusters, heavy hand rail. Panelled octagonal piers support floor above. Groin-vaulted passage runs through ground floor from entrance to garden door. Dining room is panelled with Jacobean-revival fielded panelling, incorporating a similarly styles fireplace with overmantel. Other principal rooms have been altered. Doors are mainly three-panel wooden doors. Top of stairs to first floor sports a pair of painted Doric columns carrying the attic above. Service quarters to north retain many features, including Arts and Crafts-inspired back stair with octagonal over-light.
HISTORY: designed by the celebrated Edwardian practice of Smith and Brewer, this house embodies the leading tendencies in traditional house design at the top end of the market on the eve of the First World War.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488538
- 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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