The Old Hall
1, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE, N6 6BP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378770
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- 1, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE, N6 6BP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378770
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE, N6 6BP
- Statutory Address 2:
- 1, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE, N6 6BP
- Statutory Address 3:
- 2, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE
- Statutory Address 4:
- EAST WING, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE
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:
- 1, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE, N6 6BP
- Statutory Address:
- 1, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE, N6 6BP
- Statutory Address:
- 2, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE
- Statutory Address:
- EAST WING, THE OLD HALL, 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 28271 87236
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/07/2017
TQ 2887 SW,
798-1/5/1467
CAMDEN,
SOUTH GROVE (South side),
The Old Hall
(Formerly listed as: Old Hall, Nos.1-7 (consec); previously listed as: SOUTH GROVE Old Hall Nos.2-7 (consec); formerly listed as No. 1 South Grove)
10/06/54
GV
II*
Detached house with later extensions; now flats. Main block,
c1694 with later refronting, some rebuilding late C20;
north-east wing, C16 range of former Arundel House, much
altered and refronted later C18; south-west extension, mid C19
addition now forming No.1 South Grove.
Main block: brown brick with red brick dressings. Tiled
double-pitched roof. Three storeys and basements. Double fronted with five
windows and one window slightly recessed extension to left.
Entrance bay slightly projecting; early C19 porch with fluted
Doric columns carrying entablature; doorway with fluted
surround and stops, fanlight and panelled door. Gauged red
brick flat arches to flush-framed sashes with exposed boxing.
Plain brick band at first-floor level. Moulded brick cornice
below parapet. Rear elevation with segmental-arched flush
framed sashes with exposed boxing and bowed projection to
left, through ground and first storeys with three windows and
parapet with balustraded panels.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted to retain the original
staircase, some original panelling and later panelling. Rooms
with bowed bays to rear believed to retain; ground floor, a
1595 interior taken from a house on the South Quay, Yarmouth;
1st floor, a basically Jacobean interior from Castleton Manor,
Rochdale: both installed by Lord Rochdale c1922. Basement has
a C17 ceiling beam and cornice.
North-east wing: two storeys five windows. Brown brick with hipped
roof. Segmental arched recessed sashes. South-west extension:
2-storey gabled extension in brown brick with red brick
dressings. Gauged brick cambered arches to recessed sashes.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir William Cornwallis, son of Sir Thomas,
Comptroller of the Household to Queen Mary, purchased what was
to be called Arundel House in 1588. Thomas, 2nd Earl of
Arundel acquired the house in 1610. Francis Bacon died there
1626.
(West London: RCHM: London: 90).
Listing NGR: TQ2828087243
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478123
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex: Volume VI, (1980), 137
Survey of London in The Village of Highgate The Parish of St Pancras Part 1: Volume 17 , (1936), 46-53
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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