South Hampstead High School
SOUTH HAMPSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL, 1, FITZJOHNS AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078348
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- South Hampstead High School
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH HAMPSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL, 1, FITZJOHNS AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078348
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- South Hampstead High School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH HAMPSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL, 1, FITZJOHNS 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:
- SOUTH HAMPSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL, 1, FITZJOHNS AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26558 84611
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2684NE FITZJOHN'S AVENUE
798-1/50/437 (East side)
14/05/74 No.1
South Hampstead High School
(Formerly Listed as:
FITZJOHN'S AVENUE
No.1
TAVR Centre)
II
House, now converted to a school, on a corner site with
entrance front to Maresfield Gardens. c1883. By JJ Stevenson
probably for Frank Debenham, the store magnate. Red and yellow
brick with terracotta dressings. Tiled gabled roofs with
dormers and tall brick chimney-stacks with moulded brick
patterning and cornices. 3 storeys and attic. Irregular
fenestration. Entrance front of 3 bays. Central recessed bay
with doorway approached by steps with cast-iron railings and
wooden 1st floor balcony having turned balusters and large
central shaped bracket; flanking bays with Flemish gables,
right hand has cartouche in gable and left hand with chimney
rising from the ground floor having an enriched terracotta
plaque and, set diagonally across angle, a full height bay
window. Fitzjohn's Avenue front with full height canted bay.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: originally known as Oakwood Hall, the house
has connections with the Oakwood Property Company owned by
Debenham and (Sir) Edwin Lutyens; Lutyens was engaged in 1908
to make alterations described as a "terraced shelter", not now
detectable. From the 1950s until the late 1980s in use as a
TAVR (Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve) centre.
Listing NGR: TQ2655884611
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477281
- 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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