THE HILL GARDEN WESTERN SUMMERHOUSE

THE HILL GARDEN WESTERN SUMMERHOUSE, NORTH END WAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1322070
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: THE HILL GARDEN WESTERN SUMMERHOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE HILL GARDEN WESTERN SUMMERHOUSE, NORTH END WAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1322070
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: THE HILL GARDEN WESTERN SUMMERHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE HILL GARDEN WESTERN SUMMERHOUSE, NORTH END WAY

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:: THE HILL GARDEN WESTERN SUMMERHOUSE, NORTH END WAY

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 25983 86713

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2586NE NORTH END WAY 798-1/7/1228 The Hill Garden western summerhouse 14/12/78 (Formerly Listed as: NORTH END WAY Western Summer House in Hill Garden, at Inverforth House)

GV II*

Summerhouse forming belvedere to west of, and closing western vista of, Western Pergola (qv). c1912. By Thomas H Mawson as part of a continued garden scheme for Lord Leverhulme at The Hill (now Inverforth House) (qv). This part of the garden is now in separate ownership to the house; for the house garden features see Inverforth House, North End Way entries. Brick screen walls with rusticated quoins. Pyramidised slate roof. Western side open with Portland stone Doric columns carrying stone entablature with decorated lead rainwater gutter. Attached cast and wrought-iron balustrade, of scroll and floral design, to viewing platform with good views over Hampstead Heath and into northern garden. North & south facades, lunettes with keystones and tile dressings. Eastern facade to pergola has a stone niche in rectangular surround with keystone. HISTORICAL NOTE: the terraces were constructed using spoil from the Hampstead Tube excavation. Excellent views over Hampstead Heath and back towards the house. The garden was divided when the house became a hospital; this part of the garden is open to the public.

Listing NGR: TQ2598386713

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Legacy System number:: 477635
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.