Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute and attached railings and gate
Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute and attached railings and gate, 11, South Grove
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378752
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute and attached railings and gate
- Statutory Address:
- Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute and attached railings and gate, 11, South Grove
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378752
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute and attached railings and gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute and attached railings and gate, 11, South Grove
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute and attached railings and gate, 11, South 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 28415 87332
Details
TQ2887SW
798-1/5/1456
CAMDEN
SOUTH GROVE (South side)
No.11 Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute and attached railings and gate
14/05/74
GV
II
Detached house, now library and educational institute. Mid C19 and c1880 remodelling by R Parkinson of an earlier house. Stuccoed brick with hipped Welsh slate roof; rendered brick return with tall chimney-stack.
EXTERIOR: two storeys three windows. Architraved sashes, ground floor with cornices. First floor sill band with brackets. Entablature with blocking course and shallow pediment dated 1839. Entrance formed by a gabled red brick and terracotta portico extension with semicircular arched doorway with mask keystone, impost bands, fanlight and double panelled doors; lantern above. Geometric-style three-light window to left end gable of library, which has buttressed rear wall.
INTERIOR: large ground floor room has early C19 thin-beamed coffered ceiling with Gothick-style carving to corner cupboard. To rear of this room is the lecture room of 1880 with openwork spandrels to four-bay arch-braced roof. Library to rear of lecture room was converted from former lecture room in 1880 and has a royal coat-of-arms presented in 1837 by Queen Victoria to a local innkeeper. C18 pegged queen-post roof to front range; the cellar has colourwashed late C17/C18 brickwork.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron gate and railings of geometric pattern on a low wall.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Institute is a rare survival of one of many such establishments which flourished in the C19. It was founded in 1839 "for the purpose of forming an institution designed to excite and cultivate an intelligent interest in the objects of literature and science", although it did not include "mechanics and labourers" amongst its membership until 1848. The present building, used as a school for Jewish boys in the early C19, was taken over in 1840.
Listing NGR: TQ2842287325
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478105
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barker, A E, Improving the Minds of Highgate, (1980), 13-16
Pateman, J, Source of Mental Enjoyment, (), 936,937
Country Life in 9 April, (1981)
Survey of London in The Village of Highgate The Parish of St Pancras Part 1: Volume 17 , (1936), 37,38,39
Camden History Review in Camden History Review: Volume XVIII, ()
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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