MONTFORT HOUSE

MONTFORT HOUSE, 54, PARSON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375990
Date first listed:: 03-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: MONTFORT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MONTFORT HOUSE, 54, PARSON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375990
Date first listed:: 03-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: MONTFORT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MONTFORT HOUSE, 54, PARSON STREET

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:: MONTFORT HOUSE, 54, PARSON STREET

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 23412 89671

Details

TQ 2389 PARSON STREET 31/20/10345 No 54 Montfort House II Tower house. C. 1860, extended late C19.and early C20. Brown stock brick laid in English bond to tower; slate roofs with some machine tiles. EXTERIOR: 4-stage tower of irregular hexagonal plan. North elevation with central stack rising full height to chimney flue. Identical canted side bays with one 2-light casement to each of lower 3 storeys under segmental heads and one 3-light mullioned stone window to fourth storey. Painted brick banding to lintel of ground-floor windows and under sills of fourth-storey windows. Cornice over second storey. Crenellated parapet. East elevation with full-height stock-brick extension of 1950s. South elevation with an oriel casement Window to first floor, a 2-light Window to third floor and a 3-light stone mullioned window to top floor. Stepping of parapet allows a 4-light stone mullioned Window to fifth floor. Stack to west. Late C19 addition of single-storey apsed room to south fitted with one- and 2-light casements (chapel). 2-storey apsed extension to west, with uPVC windows to first floor: ground floor obscured by early C20 conservatory. Conservatory of crucifonn plan and with weatherboarding on brick plinth below frieze of round-headed glazed lights. D.ouble doors with side glazing to south. To west is a range of early C20 additions consisting of a 2-storey canted range with timber casements and a timber verandah to ground floor. 2- storey extension west of this and then a red-brick 2-storey courtyard fronted to the south by a timber loggia under a pitched machine-tiled roof North elevation of early C20 extensions consist of a 3-storey, single- window range with a tile-hung top storey and tWin casements to lower 2 storeys and a 4-light casement to top floor. Tall hipped machine-tile roof Entrance in bowed 2-storey single-window range to west: arched entrance and a square headed light above. Tall gabled roof Further extensions to west include dining room with triple casement to ground and first floors and a stepped gable end, 2-storey single-window range projecting to west, and furth~r courtyard buildings beyond. INTERIOR: entrance hall with panelled walls, brick fireplace with serni- circular arch in east wall and heavy plain crucifonn bridging beams. Closed string staircase to south: panelled newel posts with caps and panelled side wall. Fonner chapel (of Montfort Nunnery) with plastered bridging beams and an apsed sanctuary end with one- and 2-light leaded windows with stained glass panels. Segmental arch before apse supported on 2 unfluted columns. Dining room to west of tower with small-framed panelling, crucifonn bridging beams and a chimneypiece consisting of Composite fluted columns supporting frieze of foliage carving below ovennantel with mirror framed by fluted Corinthian columns. Room to west with a wide segmental arch with panelled soffit defining recess in which is an eared timber chimneypiece with glazed bookcases in the ovennantel. Library in base of tower with panelled walls, bookcases and a 4-centred stone fireplace. Main first-floor bedroom to south in early C20 extension: large-&amed panelling, 4-panelled doors with broken pediments. Bathroom suite with original sink and bath. Panelled first-floor staircase landing.

Listing NGR: TQ2341289671

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Legacy System number:: 469971
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.