SOUTH HAMPSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL

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
List Entry Name:: SOUTH HAMPSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: SOUTH HAMPSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL, 1, FITZJOHNS AVENUE

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Official list entry

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

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:: SOUTH HAMPSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL, 1, FITZJOHNS AVENUE

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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

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Legacy System number:: 477281
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.