HOLCOMBE HOUSE

HOLCOMBE HOUSE, THE RIDGEWAY NW7

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1064845
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: HOLCOMBE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HOLCOMBE HOUSE, THE RIDGEWAY NW7

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Date:: 2007-03-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1064845
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: HOLCOMBE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HOLCOMBE HOUSE, THE RIDGEWAY NW7

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HOLCOMBE HOUSE, THE RIDGEWAY NW7

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:: TQ2215193101

Details

1. 5004 TQ 2293 14/11 3.2.50

THE RIDGEWAY (south-west side) NW7 Holcombe House

II*

Villa, c.1775-8 for Sir John Anderson, a City of London merchant and Lord Mayor in 1797, by John Johnson, architect. Brick faced with stucco. Two storeys. Entrance front three bays wide with central entrance defined by semi-circular porch. Rusticated ground floor with semi-circular openings either side of the entrance with a plain panel and flat-arched window set within. Three pairs of fluted pilasters above dividing three flat-arched windows; shallow modillion cornice and balustraded parapet. Garden front: 2-storey plus lower ground floor; 5 bays. Central ground floor window now used as a door. Flat-arched windows throughout, taller on the ground floor. Balustraded parapet broken by 3 flat topped dormers. INTERIOR: Elliptical entrance hall possesses cantilevered staircase with fine wrought iron 'S'scroll balustrade and moulded wooden handrail. There is fine Adamesque plasterwork in the former dining room with Grecian-style stucco figures within almond-shaped frames, and in the library. HISTORY. In 1866 the house and grounds were acquired by Herbert Vaughn, later Archbishop of Westminster, who established a missionary college there. The house was passed over in 1871 to the 'Franciscan Sisters of the Regular Third Order' who provided the corps of staff to run a school for girls. The villa now forms part of the Catholic School of St Mary's Abbey and is surrounded with later associated buildings.

Listing NGR: TQ2215193101

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Legacy System number:: 199042
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.