West Hampstead Primary School and attached railings and gateway
West Hampstead Primary School, Dornfell Street, Camden, London, NW6 1QL
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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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 1:
- West Hampstead Primary School, Dornfell Street, Camden, London, NW6 1QL
- Statutory Address 2:
- West Hampstead Primary School, Dornfell Street, Camden, London, NW6 1QL
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- West Hampstead Primary School, Dornfell Street, Camden, London, NW6 1QL
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476760
- 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.
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