20, MARESFIELD GARDENS
20, MARESFIELD GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113113
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 20, MARESFIELD GARDENS
- Statutory Address:
- 20, MARESFIELD GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113113
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 20, MARESFIELD GARDENS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, MARESFIELD GARDENS
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:
- 20, MARESFIELD GARDENS
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 26482 84855
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2684NW MARESFIELD GARDENS
798-1/49/1107 (East side)
14/05/74 No.20
II
Detached house, now a museum. Early C20. Red brick with
rusticated brick quoins. Tiled roof with 3, tall
chimney-stacks and upswept eaves with modillion eaves cornice.
C17 style. 2 storeys and attic. 5 windows plus asymmetrically
set 3-window canted entrance bay. Doorway with cornice-head
flanked by console-brackets supporting broken pediment hood;
door with panels shaped to oculus. Subsidiary part-glazed
panelled door to left. Flat arches to flush framed sashes with
exposed boxing. Entrance bay with tall transom and mullion
windows to 1st floor.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: plaque records this as the home of Sigmund
Freud in exile from the summer of 1938 until his death in
September 1939. Following his death the house was lived in by
Anna Freud (d.1982), his daughter and herself a leading
psychoanalyst. In 1986 the house was opened as a museum
reflecting the life and work of father and daughter, including
the former's collection of antiquities and much of his
furniture, including 'The Couch'.
Listing NGR: TQ2648284855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477491
- 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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