West Hampstead Primary School and attached railings and gateway

West Hampstead Primary School, Dornfell Street, Camden, London, NW6 1QL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272354
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: West Hampstead Primary School and attached railings and gateway
Statutory Address:: West Hampstead Primary School, Dornfell Street, Camden, London, NW6 1QL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272354
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: West Hampstead Primary School and attached railings and gateway
Statutory Address 1:: West Hampstead Primary School, Dornfell Street, Camden, London, NW6 1QL

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:: West Hampstead Primary School, Dornfell Street, Camden, London, NW6 1QL

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 24928 85075

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 September 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ2485SE 798-1/34/118

CAMDEN DORNFELL STREET (west side) West Hampstead Primary School and attached railings and gateway

(Formerly listed as Beckford Primary School and attached railings and gateway. BROOMSLEIGH STREET (West side))

GV II Board school, now a primary school. 1885-86 and 1891, some later alterations. By TJ Bailey. For the School Board of London. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings. Tiled roofs with tall slab chimney-stacks rising from party walls. Asymmetrical design on a south sloping site. Four and three storeys. Two left hand bays identical, each upper floor with groups of three windows having glazing bars, cornice at third floor sill level and central third floor windows having segmental-arched heads extending into inswept pediments surmounted by small stone pediments. Recessed central bay of small paired sashes. Two right hand bays with similar windows to left but terminating in large Flemish gables, left hand with oculus and slab chimney-stack with bellcote, right hand with plaque.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached pedimented stone Infants gateway dated 1886 and railings with fleur-de-lys finials.

Listing NGR: TQ2492885075

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Legacy System number:: 476760
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.