HEATHCROFT

HEATHCROFT, HAMPSTEAD WAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096074
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: HEATHCROFT
Statutory Address:: HEATHCROFT, HAMPSTEAD WAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096074
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: HEATHCROFT
Statutory Address 1:: HEATHCROFT, HAMPSTEAD WAY

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:: HEATHCROFT, HAMPSTEAD WAY

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 25822 87454, TQ 25840 87492

Details

31/0/10442 HAMPSTEAD WAY 29-APR-03 Heathcroft

GV II

Linked blocks of flats, and caretaker's cottage. 1923-4 to the designs of J B F Cowper. Three and four storeys and attics, red-brown brick, with orange dressings. Hipped tiled roofs, partly concealed by parapets in places, hipped and flat-roofed casement dormers, tall brick chimneystacks, some with blind arched recesses, with moulded caps. Timber small paned casement windows, with heavier section mullions and transoms. 9 linked blocks around large inverted 'T'-shaped courtyard, with central single-storey caretaker's cottage on frontage, flanked by tall three and four storey blocks to left and right.

Neo-Georgian style, with projecting doorways and canted bays, recessed balconies to break up the mass of the buildings. Detailing includes brick 'vanishing' pilasters with moulded bases and caps, projecting flat rubbed brick voussoir arches, and the integration of gable chimneys with ramped parapets, and shows the influence of Lutyens and of patternbook early Georgian features.

The complex is a dominant, yet skillfully articulated mass, facing the Hampstead Heath Extension across Hampstead Way. The architect became a specialist designer of flats following his success in a competition for Heathcroft organised by the developers, Second Hampstead Tenants Ltd, in 1923.

Sources The Builder, 9 March 1923, and 1 May 1964 Miller/Gray, Hampstead Gardens Suburb, 1992, pp.172-3

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 490040
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Miller, M, Gray, A S, Hampstead Garden Suburb172-73
'The Builder' in 9 March, (1923)
'The Builder' in 1May, (1964)

Legal

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