BARN FIELD

BARN FIELD, UPPER PARK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246729
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-2000
List Entry Name:: BARN FIELD
Statutory Address:: BARN FIELD, UPPER PARK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246729
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-2000
List Entry Name:: BARN FIELD
Statutory Address 1:: BARN FIELD, UPPER PARK 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:: BARN FIELD, UPPER 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:: TQ2766785184

Details

TQ2785SE 798-1/40/10166 22-DEC-00

UPPER PARK ROAD (East side) Barn Field

GV II

Block of 46 flats and maisonettes. 1947-9 by Donald Hanks McMorran of Farquharson and McMorran for Hampstead MB. Brown Leicestershire brick, with concrete floors, tiled and asphalted roofs; brick stacks. The block is arranged as a tripartite terrace of three and four storeys over basements on sloping sites, the three four-storey blocks with white rendered gable ends. The maisonettes are on the upper floors, and small flats and bedsits intended for the elderly are placed at the end of the blocks. Save in these small flats, all the living rooms and kitchens face west, the latter set behind a balcony; all the bedrooms face east, set over basement stores and covered arcaded play area. Seven staircases and five lifts ensure that no galleries are required.

Harmonious composition in McMorran's distinctive neo-classical style. The five main staircases, with lifts, entered via door set in stone architrave surround under flat hood with square entablature and supported on curved console brackets. Large staircase windows over. Balconies set within the line of the block, supported on openwork steel girders and with steel balustrades. All windows are timber sashes with small regular panes, those to the living rooms with margin lights, supported on steel chains. The windows on the fourth floor have keystones. The smaller flats have their own entrances and staircases in the end returns. East elevation set over arcaded play area, with projecting balconies to the living rooms of the upper small flats at ends, and to the bedrooms in the centre of each third floor penthouse section. [Barn Field: plaque carved by Sidney Pool, commemorates the opening of the flats on St George's Day, 23 April 1949, by the Hon John Fremantle, Chairman of the Housing Committee of Hampstead Borough Council. The scheme, conceived in 1943 as Hampstead's contribution to the housing shortage wrought by the War, was seen 'as a potent symbol of regeneration and hope'.

Interiors. Staircases with steel balustrading. Many living rooms retain their original corner tiled fireplaces. Built in cupboards and heated airing cupboards were a feature of the development from the first.

Hampstead MB built Barn Field and Wood Field to replace houses destroyed by the first bomb to land on the borough, on 9 September 1940. The Borough Council determined that the new housing should have a traditional character to reflect the eighteenth century architecture for which Hampstead is noted. The dwellings were exceptionally well equipped for their date, with lifts as well as staircases - exceptional for a four-storey block - and good internal fittings. The result is one of McMorran's first and perhaps most lavish blocks of flats, in which his combination of Soanic and Scandinavian devices, producing a lean, spare but exceptionally well-proportioned classicism is seen at its best. The names Barn Field and Wood Field were taken from the old field names on the site. The scheme was exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition of May 1946, with perspectives showing it much as built. It was awarded the RIBA's London Architecture Medal for the best building of 1948.

Sources The Builder, 17 May 1946, p.480 The Builder, 28 March 1947, pp.294-6 Official opening brochure, 23 April 1949 Architect and Building News, 18 November 1949, pp.500-3 The Builder 21 October 1949, pp.511-14

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 486927
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'The Builder' in 21 October, (1949), 511-14
'The Builder' in 17 May, (1946), 480
'The Builder' in 28 March, (1947), 294-6
'Architect and Building News' in 18 November, (1949), 500-03
Other
Barn Field and Wood Field: official opening brochure, 23 April 1949, 1949,

Legal

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