DEVONSHIRE LODGE

DEVONSHIRE LODGE, 26 AND 28, FINCHLEY ROAD NW8

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1289804
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: DEVONSHIRE LODGE
Statutory Address:: DEVONSHIRE LODGE, 26 AND 28, FINCHLEY ROAD NW8

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Date:: 2001-06-22
Reference:: IOE01/04530/25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1289804
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: DEVONSHIRE LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: DEVONSHIRE LODGE, 26 AND 28, FINCHLEY ROAD NW8

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:: DEVONSHIRE LODGE, 26 AND 28, FINCHLEY ROAD NW8

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 26616 83588

Details

TQ 2683 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER FINCHLEY ROAD, NW8 3/26 Nos 26 and 28 10.9.73 (Devonshire Lodge) G.V. II* Semi-detached villas. c1830-40 (Eyre Estate) with some alterations and later rear alterations. Stucco; slate roof. Grecian. 2 storeys and central pedimented attic. Each 2 windows wide with outer recessed entrance bays. Pilastered doorways with entablatures, that of No 28 altered. Architraved sash and casement windows. Main block has quoin pilasters and pilasters flanking central party wall recess. Simplified entablature, below flat eaves of hipped roof, is broken by central 2-window pedimented attic. Cast iron anthemion-geometric patterned balconies to 1st floor windows. No 28 was the home of the poet Thomas Hood from 1844-45 (LCC plaque); from c1900-1961 Devonshire Lodge housed the St John's Wood Art Club whoses members included such artists as Alma-Tadema, Dendy Sadler, Alfred Gilbert, Charles and C A Voysey, etc. Listed II* for artistic and historical associations.

Listing NGR: TQ2661683588

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Legacy System number:: 209727
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.