Highwood House
Highwood House, Highwood Hill, NW7
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359073
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Highwood House
- Statutory Address:
- Highwood House, Highwood Hill, NW7
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359073
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Highwood House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Highwood House, Highwood Hill, NW7
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:
- Highwood House, Highwood Hill, NW7
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Barnet (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 21797 93586
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 September 2024 to update details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 29 SW
5/7
Mill Hill
HIGHWOOD HILL NW7
Highwood House
3.2.50
II
Early C19 mansion. Two storey stucco with band at eaves and between storeys. Three window centre (first floor left blocked) with one window full height projecting square bays with very flat pediments at either end, and one storey wing (top lit) to right. Ground floor windows of bays and wing are in round headed recesses with lion heads above windows. There are also lion heads above first floor side windows of central block. Semi-circular porch with two Ionic columns .
Was home of Sir Stamford Raffles, Founder of Singapore, Governor of Java and Founder and First President of the Zoological Society, just before his death in 1826. Grade II partly on historical grounds.
Listing NGR: TQ2179793586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 198986
- 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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