The Old Vicarage and Attached Railings, Gate and Wall
THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE AND WALL, OAKLEY SQUARE
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Overview
- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477649
- 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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