PUBLIC CONVENIENCES AT TQ 2669 8662

PUBLIC CONVENIENCES AT TQ 2669 8662, HAMPSTEAD HEATH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378677
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: PUBLIC CONVENIENCES AT TQ 2669 8662
Statutory Address:: PUBLIC CONVENIENCES AT TQ 2669 8662, HAMPSTEAD HEATH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378677
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: PUBLIC CONVENIENCES AT TQ 2669 8662
Statutory Address 1:: PUBLIC CONVENIENCES AT TQ 2669 8662, HAMPSTEAD HEATH

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:: PUBLIC CONVENIENCES AT TQ 2669 8662, HAMPSTEAD HEATH

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 26690 86620

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2686NE HAMPSTEAD HEATH 798-1/9/741 Public conveniences at TQ 2669 8662

II

Public conveniences. c1889-94. Designed by the London County Council Architects' Department. Brick plinth to one third of height then timber framing. Tiled gableted roof with decorative finials, overhanging bracketed eaves and gabled dormers having bargeboards and crested ridge tiles to central projecting gabled roof. Rectangular plan. Single storey, symmetrical design. Central canted bay window, with glazing bars and small panes to top horizontal lights, under large projecting gable. Flanking bays with similarly glazed 2-light windows. Entrances set in angles of projecting returns. Returns and rear facade with high placed windows having glazing bars. INTERIORS: both sides similar having attendants' rooms situated in the canted bay with half-glazed panelled stable type doors. Walls lined with original white tiles, partly with moulded brown ceramic dado rail. Cubicles have outward opening plank doors with gaps at top and bottom. Matchboard ceilings lit by the gabled dormers. Working gas lights around the walls with frosted glass shades. C20 sanitary equipment. HISTORICAL NOTE: this building was probably erected as part of the LCC municipal improvement campaign for Hampstead Heath which led to fears for the loss of the Heath's wilder charms.

Listing NGR: TQ2669086620

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Legacy System number:: 478011
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.