HAMPSTEAD TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS

HAMPSTEAD TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS, 55, FITZJOHNS AVENUE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078350
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: HAMPSTEAD TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address:: HAMPSTEAD TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS, 55, FITZJOHNS AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078350
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: HAMPSTEAD TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: HAMPSTEAD TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS, 55, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HAMPSTEAD TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS, 55, 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 26540 85194

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2685SE FITZJOHN'S AVENUE 798-1/38/439 (West side) No.55 Hampstead Tower and attached walls

GV II

Detached house. 1880-1. By JT Wimperis. For HF Baxter. Late C20 additions. Red brick with stone dressings. Tiled hipped roofs with cresting and finials and tall enriched brick chimney-stacks. Gothic baronial style. Asymmetrical design. 3 storeys, attic and basement. 3 bays to original house. Left hand bay forms a tall stair tower with pyramidal roof and weathervane above a continuous range of shaped windows with bartizans at angles. Ground floor double pitched entrance porch, approached by balustraded steps, below an oriel window. Central bay of single transom and mullion windows to each floor; ground floor balustraded balcony. Right hand bay projecting through 3 floors with 3-light transom and mullion windows; 2nd floor forming a round-arched arcaded balcony with balustrade. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick wall with stone coping and large stone enriched pyramid and ball caps.

Listing NGR: TQ2654085194

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 477283
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.