Former Friern Hospital
Princess Park Manor, Royal Drive, Friern Barnet, London, N11 3FL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078848
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Former Friern Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- Princess Park Manor, Royal Drive, Friern Barnet, London, N11 3FL
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078848
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Former Friern Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- Princess Park Manor, Royal Drive, Friern Barnet, London, N11 3FL
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:
- Princess Park Manor, Royal Drive, Friern Barnet, London, N11 3FL
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 28380 92086
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 September 2024 to update the name and address, amend description due to change in building use and reformat the text to current standards.
TQ 29 SE
6/21
FRIERN BARNET
ROYAL DRIVE
Princess Park Manor
Former Friern Hospital
(Formerly listed as Friern Hospital, FRIERN BARNET ROAD)
17.9.82
II
S W Daukes of Cheltenham Foundation Stone laid 8 May 1849. Opened July 1851. Originally known as the Colney Hatch Asylum it was renamed in 1937. The hospital closed in 1993 and by 2008 had been converted into apartments.
The complex is dominated by a central block with two towers and an octagonal dome, flanked by long wings. The whole front is 1,881 ft in length in a plain Italianite style, yellow brick with stone dressings. Built as the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum but known better as Colney Hatch. The direct successor of Bethlehem Hospital in Lambeth and of some historic interest in the more humane treatment of the insane 'kept without shackle or even strait-waistcoat' (Thorne). Only the main part is of interest.
Listing NGR: TQ2838092086
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 198883
- 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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