The Pantiles
THE PANTILES, FINCHLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096075
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Pantiles
- Statutory Address:
- THE PANTILES, FINCHLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096075
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Pantiles
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PANTILES, FINCHLEY ROAD
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:
- THE PANTILES, FINCHLEY ROAD
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 24839 88941
Details
31/0/10443 FINCHLEY ROAD
29-APR-03 The Pantiles
II
Block of 40 flats. 1934 to the designs of J B F Cowper. Brick, upper floors smooth rendered, green glazed pantiled shallow hipped roofs. 40 flats with access from five staircases. Three storeys, with part basement. Pastiche Italianate style. Crittall small-paned steel casement windows, with some canted bays. Open half-courtyard plan, with projecting ends. Arched windows on the ground floor, the balcony fronts, entrance doors with profiled tracery and imposing flights of steps from Finchley Road with flanking parapets topped by stone pantile copings. The brick staircase towers, with their full-length glazing and flat parapet roofs, indicate the influence of modern styling, taken further on the rear elevation where the roofs are flat to give a continuous fire escape balcony on the third floor, with a bold banded treatment of the projecting staircase turrets. Interiors not inspected.
The Italianate or 'hacienda' style had a short-lived popularity in the 1930s. Here it is done with unusual verve and attention to detail. The architect, James B F Cowper, came to prominence as a specialist designer of flats after winning a competition for the construction of Heathcroft, Hampstead Garden Suburb (q.v.). This is a fine, little-altered example of his mature style, showing his care for detail and fine massing in whatever style he adopted.
Sources
Ascot Water Heaters, Flats, 1938
The Builder, 9 March 1923 and 1 May 1964
Miller and Gray, Hampstead Garden Suburb, 1992
RIBA Biography File
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490041
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Miller, M, Gray, A S, Hampstead Garden Suburb, ()
The Builder in 1May, (1964)
The Builder in 9 March, (1923)
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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