CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE AND ATTACHED PIERS AND WALL

CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE AND ATTACHED PIERS AND WALL, ARKWRIGHT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244685
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1990
List Entry Name:: CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE AND ATTACHED PIERS AND WALL
Statutory Address:: CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE AND ATTACHED PIERS AND WALL, ARKWRIGHT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244685
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1990
List Entry Name:: CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE AND ATTACHED PIERS AND WALL
Statutory Address 1:: CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE AND ATTACHED PIERS AND WALL, ARKWRIGHT ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE AND ATTACHED PIERS AND WALL, FINCHLEY ROAD

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:: CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE AND ATTACHED PIERS AND WALL, ARKWRIGHT ROAD
Statutory Address:: CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE AND ATTACHED PIERS AND WALL, FINCHLEY 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 26044 85150

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2685SW ARKWRIGHT ROAD 798-1/37/57 (North side) 08/06/90 Camden Arts Centre and attached piers and wall

II

Includes: Camden Arts Centre and attached piers and wall FINCHLEY ROAD. Library, now an arts centre. 1897. By Arnold S Tayler. Extended 1909 and 1926. Red brick, stone dressings, slate roofs. Corner site; Arkwright Road elevation basically symmetrical. 2 outer gabled wings set forward, 3 inner gableted bays. EXTERIOR: 2 and 2 1/2 storeys. To left; 4-light oriel window over 3 single lights beneath embattled parapet. Louvred light to gable. Brick sill and impost bands. Polygonal belfry on ridge, a solid base surmounted by ouvres, beneath ogival cap with finial. Main block; the bays subdivided between the windows by stepped stone-dressed buttresses. To left and right, mullion and transom windows of 2 x 3 lights, beneath gablet, and flanked by similar 2 x 2 light windows. Central entrance through buttressed porch set forward. Stone parapet with blind arcade, over Tudor-style arched stone moulded entrance. Above, 2-light window beneath gablet. Double flight of stone steps between brick retaining wall with moulded stone coping. Ground floor windows, following rhythm of upper storey but variously mullion and transom and casements. Similar dressings. Right hand wing; pair of stone niches beneath canopies at 1st floor level. Louvred gable light. 3 ground floor openings. Square belfry set back on ridge. Finchley Road elevation; 2 storeys 5 bays, the 2nd to 4th set forward on square bays, and beneath gablets. 1st floor stone mullion and transom windows, alternately 2 x 2 and 2 x 3 lights, linked by continuous flush stone band at transom level. Ground floor similar with timber casements to 2nd to 4th bays. To left, former entrance with elliptical head beneath 4-light overlight with small leaded panes and beneath elliptical parapet. INTERIOR: principal rooms, now studios, with canted ribbed ceilings with original ventilation grilles. Room to right of entrance has iron spiral staircase to upper level. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to Arkwright Road elevation, pair of gate piers of banded brickwork and stone, with stone coping and having iron overthrow. Low parapet wall links similar piers, some with ball finials, and 2 with overthrow and leading to secondary entrance.

CAMDEN

TQ2685SW FINCHLEY ROAD 798-1/37/57 Camden Arts Centre and attached 08/06/90 piers and wall

II

See under: Camden Arts Centre and attached piers and wall ARKWRIGHT ROAD.

Listing NGR: TQ2604485150

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Legacy System number:: 476621
Legacy System:: LBS

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