FOUR GARDEN STATUES AND A CISTERN IN THE GROUNDS OF FENTON HOUSE

FOUR GARDEN STATUES AND A CISTERN IN THE GROUNDS OF FENTON HOUSE, HAMPSTEAD GROVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378650
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: FOUR GARDEN STATUES AND A CISTERN IN THE GROUNDS OF FENTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FOUR GARDEN STATUES AND A CISTERN IN THE GROUNDS OF FENTON HOUSE, HAMPSTEAD GROVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378650
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: FOUR GARDEN STATUES AND A CISTERN IN THE GROUNDS OF FENTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FOUR GARDEN STATUES AND A CISTERN IN THE GROUNDS OF FENTON HOUSE, HAMPSTEAD GROVE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FOUR GARDEN STATUES AND A CISTERN IN THE GROUNDS OF FENTON HOUSE, HAMPSTEAD GROVE

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 26262 86071

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2686SW HAMPSTEAD GROVE 798-1/16/736 Four garden statues and a cistern in 14/05/74 the grounds of Fenton House (Formerly Listed as: HAMPSTEAD GROVE Garden gates and walls to No.3)

GV II

4 garden statues and a cistern in the grounds of Fenton House (qv). Shepherd and shepherdess situated outside the front door, c1735, by John Cheere for Coldbath Abbey, King's Heath, Worcester. Lead figures on stone pedestals. Both depicted in C18 rustic costume, she holding an apple in each hand, he stands with legs crossed and holds a crook. The shepherdess is currently in store, having been stolen c1988 but subsequently recovered. Bacchus with a faun situated on the North Lawn, C19. Lead figures on a circular base and stone pedestal. Nude figure of Bacchus holding a shallow bowl in raised left hand and a bunch of grapes in the right hand. Behind is a small figure of a faun. Sitting toad situated at the north-east end of the North Lawn, C19. Bronze. Realistically moulded figure of a sitting toad approximately 10" high. Cistern in the Orchard Garden, dated 1723. Lead. Rectangular plan with relief decoration of 2 ovals, within a geometric pattern, having the same scene of a knight in armour on a rearing horse. Garland drops at angles.

Listing NGR: TQ2626286071

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Legacy System number:: 477984
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.