Numbers 79 and 81 Including Attached Motor Houses

NUMBERS 79 AND 81 INCLUDING ATTACHED MOTOR HOUSES, 79 AND 81, HAMPSTEAD WAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1259643
Date first listed:
28-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:
Numbers 79 and 81 Including Attached Motor Houses
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 79 AND 81 INCLUDING ATTACHED MOTOR HOUSES, 79 AND 81, HAMPSTEAD WAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1259643
Date first listed:
28-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:
Numbers 79 and 81 Including Attached Motor Houses
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 79 AND 81 INCLUDING ATTACHED MOTOR HOUSES, 79 AND 81, HAMPSTEAD WAY

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 79 AND 81 INCLUDING ATTACHED MOTOR HOUSES, 79 AND 81, HAMPSTEAD WAY

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 25526 87913

Details

BARNET
TQ2587 HAMPSTEAD WAY
31-0/28/10160 (South West side)
Hampstead Garden Suburb
Nos.79 AND 81
including attached motor houses
GV
II

Pair of houses. 1910-1911. Ernest Wilmott. Red brick in
Flemish bond; tile hanging to dormers. Hipped and gable facing roofs of tile with boxed eaves. Two storeys. Bilaterally symmetrical based on double-ended hall house with catslide roofs to returns enclosing a motor house of original design. Crosswings of one-window range. At outer corners of recessed hall range a two storey rectangular entrance porch of one-window range, each vestibule enclosed by strip glazing with Tuscan pilasters; bracketed porch; doors of an original design with decorative overlight. Flanking party wall, ground floor, pair of segmental-arched windows with Venetian window glazing bars. Hall range spanned by two broad tile hung and gable-facing dormers. Axial ridge stack to party wall; ridge stacks to each crosswing, on inside returns of which a small Diocletian window; ground-floor windows to crosswings are segmental arched. Returns set back to rear of motor house where there is an chimney breast and stack buttresses by a dormer; second dormer to rear. Casement windows of an original design. Motor house doors also of original design. Noteworthy variation of double-ended hall house type common to the
suburb, made all the more valuable by the presence of motor houses at the far ends, perfectly integrated with the overall design.



Listing NGR: TQ2552287918

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
462671
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.

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