Cecil Sharp House
CECIL SHARP HOUSE, REGENTS PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130379
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cecil Sharp House
- Statutory Address:
- CECIL SHARP HOUSE, REGENTS PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130379
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cecil Sharp House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CECIL SHARP HOUSE, REGENTS PARK 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:
- CECIL SHARP HOUSE, REGENTS PARK ROAD
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 28446 83756
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2883NW REGENT'S PARK ROAD
798-1/75/1383 (North side)
22/12/87 Cecil Sharp House
II
Headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
1929-30. By HM Fletcher. For the English Folk Dance Society.
Partly rebuilt 1949-51 after war damage. Brown brick and
tiled, hipped roof. Neo-Georgian style. Rectangular plan on a
triangular corner site.
EXTERIOR: 1 to 2 storeys plus basement. Front facade of 1 tall
storey, 5 bays. Square-headed stone-architraved doorways with
wooden panelled doors to end bays; approached by steps with
cast-iron railings. Gauged brick flat arches to tall metal
framed windows with margin glazing and small panes
articulating the double height dance hall. Pilaster strips at
angles continue through parapet with brick band to terminate
with stone ball finials.
INTERIOR: following the post-war rebuilding a former
musicians' gallery in the dance hall was replaced by a large
specially commissioned (approx 20m long) mural painting by
Ivon Hitchens which is of historic and artistic interest.
Other walls of hall wooden panelled to window height.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Cecil Sharp collected, edited, performed and
wrote about English folk-songs and dances; he was the leader
of the modern English folk-music revival. He joined the
Committee of the Folk Song Society in 1904 and founded the
English Folk Dance Society in 1911; the societies amalgamated
in 1932. The building houses Sharp's library which he
bequeathed on his death in 1924.
Listing NGR: TQ2844683756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477848
- 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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