Number 24 and Walls and Gate Piers
NUMBER 24 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 24, BELSIZE CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244557
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 24 and Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 24 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 24, BELSIZE CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244557
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 24 and Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 24 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 24, BELSIZE CRESCENT
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:
- NUMBER 24 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 24, BELSIZE CRESCENT
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 26796 85023
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2685SE BELSIZE CRESCENT
798-1/38/1822 (South East side)
No.24
and walls and gate piers
GV II
Semi-detached house. c1886. By Harry B Measures. For William
Willett and Son, builder-developers. Red and blue-grey bricks
with rubbed brick dressings and string courses. Timber
windows, tiled roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 full storeys including semi-basement, with dormers
in roof. Front an asymmetrical composition in Queen Anne style
attached to stucco terrace at Nos 6-22 (even) Belsize Crescent
(not included). Steps up to entrance which has slightly
recessed porch with ogee head and fanlights, and 2 windows
over. To right, projecting bay window with canted sides rising
through 3 storeys beneath a shaped Queen Anne gable with
pilasters terminating in volutes. Elaborate tall chimney on
northern flank. Steeply hipped roof cut back into gablet below
ridge. Windows partly sashes, partly casements, with smaller
panes in upper portions.
INTERIOR has original hall and staircase, well preserved.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: dwarf garden wall in front with plinth,
buttresses and polygonal piers topped by terracotta finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: thought to have been the first Queen Anne
house built by the Willetts in Hampstead as part of their
'Belsize Court' development, and attached to an earlier
terrace built by them in a mid-Victorian stucco style. It
forms part of the powerful group of Willett houses in
Lyndhurst Gardens.
Listing NGR: TQ2679685023
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476710
- 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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