THE OLD HALL

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
List Entry Name:: THE OLD HALL
Statutory Address:: 1, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE, N6 6BP

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Official list entry

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:: 2, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE
Statutory Address 3:: EAST WING, THE OLD HALL, SOUTH GROVE

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.

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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:: 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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 478123
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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.