MARSHALL HOUSE LINEN AND WOOLLEN DRAPERS INSTITUTE

MARSHALL HOUSE LINEN AND WOOLLEN DRAPERS INSTITUTE, HAMMERS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246867
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-2001
List Entry Name:: MARSHALL HOUSE LINEN AND WOOLLEN DRAPERS INSTITUTE
Statutory Address:: MARSHALL HOUSE LINEN AND WOOLLEN DRAPERS INSTITUTE, HAMMERS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246867
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-2001
List Entry Name:: MARSHALL HOUSE LINEN AND WOOLLEN DRAPERS INSTITUTE
Statutory Address 1:: MARSHALL HOUSE LINEN AND WOOLLEN DRAPERS INSTITUTE, HAMMERS LANE

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:: MARSHALL HOUSE LINEN AND WOOLLEN DRAPERS INSTITUTE, HAMMERS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Barnet (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 22283 92527

Details

TQ2392 HAMMERS LANE 31/17/10400 Mill Hill 30-MAR-01 Marshall House Linen and Woollen Drape rs Institute

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Marshall House, Hammers Lane, Mill Hill, LB Barnet

Former retirement home, now offices. 1897 by George Hornblower, architect (1858-1940). Red brick with extensive terra cotta enrichment, tiled roof and tile-hung gables. Central three-bay block, surmounted with a wooden cupola carried on eight Doric columns, with an arched doorcase with panelled door and fanlight, surmounted by a finial-flanked fifteen-light oriel window below a stepped gable with terra cotta finials. The door is flanked with granite inscription tablets within terra cotta surrounds, referring to its 1897 foundation as THIS CENTRAL BLOCK OF THE HOMES FOR PENSIONERS OF THE LINEN & WOOLLEN DRAPERS INSTITUTION, and its erection in memory of James Marshall. The adjoining two storey side ranges were built at the same time as further living accommodation. To the rear is a double-height addition of 1901 containing a smoking and reading room annexe, with dedicatory tablet on the north side. Interior: features include an oak staircase with turned balusters; the smoking room retains its open timber roof, inglenook fireplace and matching bench. The principal room is the first floor hall, with open timber roof carried on trusses, rising from stone corbels, each designed in the form of a triumphal arch; over the door is a bust of the donor George Marshall on a moulded bracket. The central oriel window is glazed with fifteen panels of stained glass, signed by T.F. Curtis Ward and Lucas, 1898: the upper two registers depict Christ in Majesty amid angels, flanked by panels of Faith, Hope, Charity and Truth; below is a three-panel depiction of Charity, flanked by side panels of Dorcas and Lydia. History: this building formed the communal premises of the cottage homes foundation of the Linen and Woollen Drapers' Institution, a friendly society founded in 1832 by employees of the drapery trade, which opened a complex of forty-two cottages here in 1898 on ground given by the successful draper George Marshall, of the Marshall and Snelgrove drapery store; the side wings were donated by his partner. A strong architectural design retaining interiors of note, the building is a good example of late Victorian commercial philanthropy.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 487006
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.