THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE AND WALL

THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE AND WALL, OAKLEY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322083
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE AND WALL
Statutory Address:: THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE AND WALL, OAKLEY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322083
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE AND WALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE AND WALL, OAKLEY SQUARE

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 OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE AND WALL, OAKLEY SQUARE

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 29341 83378

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2983SW OAKLEY SQUARE 798-1/83/1244 (West side) The Old Vicarage and attached railings, gate & wall

GV II

Vicarage, now a private residence. 1861. By John Johnson. Yellow stock brick with stone, red brick and dark yellow brick bands, patterning and dressings. Slate pitched roofs with red cresting, tall brick chimney-stack to rear and pyramidal roof to stair tower. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement. Asymmetrical design. A deep band of zig-zag patterned brickwork, outlined with stone, runs around the building. Entrance in lower mono-pitched roof bay to right; round-arched panelled door with quatrefoil and trefoil-headed glazed panels under a gabled trefoil porch supported on Decorated columns; carved Agnus Dei in apex. To right, a trefoil headed lancet and 2-pane sash with shaped stone lintel to 1st floor. Left hand gabled bay has canted bay windows rising from the basement to the 2nd floor and terminating with a penthouse roof beneath a 2-light window with trefoil heads, colonnette and quatrefoil under a pointed arch. Ground floor central window with colonnette and foil enrichment. Right hand return has irregular similar style windows and stair-tower with deep diaper patterned band with oculi below the eaves. Decorated cast-iron rainwater heads. INTERIOR: retains original features with Gothic fireplaces, cornices and stair with twisted balusters and quatrefoil fretwork. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with enriched cross finials and entrance gate, set in Kentish ragstone random rubble, stone capped wall. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Church of St Matthew, also by Johnson, but now demolished, stood to the right. The architect was best known for his designs for Alexandra Palace.

Listing NGR: TQ2934183378

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Legacy System number:: 477649
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.