Hampstead Town Hall and Attached Walls and Piers
HAMPSTEAD TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, HAVERSTOCK HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378818
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hampstead Town Hall and Attached Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- HAMPSTEAD TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, HAVERSTOCK HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378818
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hampstead Town Hall and Attached Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAMPSTEAD TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, HAVERSTOCK HILL
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:
- HAMPSTEAD TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, HAVERSTOCK HILL
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 27231 85171
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2785SW HAVERSTOCK HILL
798-1/39/789 (South West side)
01/08/94 Hampstead Town Hall and attached
walls & piers
II
Town hall, now council offices. 1877-8. By HE Kendall and
Frederick Mew. Red brick, rusticated at ground floor level,
with stone dressings. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical design. Central stone-cased entrance
with panelled pilasters supporting mask console brackets to
pediment with carved, foliated cartouche and acroterion;
double part-glazed panelled doors, with 2 rectangular
overlights and a further overlight, approached by wide steps
with low stone balustrades having elaborately enriched
cast-iron lampstandards with ladder bars and Windsor lanterns.
To each side of the entrance, 3 stone architraved sashes with
scrolled pediments incorporating architraved oculi. Dentil
cornice at 1st floor level below a blind balustrade with
panels of carved enrichment. 3 tall round-arched central
windows flanked by brick pilasters linked by impost bands;
pilasters marking bays and angles continue in fluted stone to
support an entablature with "Town Hall" inscribed on the
frieze and modillion cornice crowned by a pediment with oculus
above central bay and parapet above outer bays. Returns
without entrances but in similar style and having friezes
inscribed "Erected AD 1877".
INTERIOR: with many original details including cornices,
fireplaces, clocks and radiators. Top-lit entrance hall with
patterned tile floor and Imperial stair with elaborate
cast-iron balusters and newels having brass lamp-holders. At
1st landing, a round-arched mirror in marble surround with
clock in pediment. In right hand stair well, a marble 1st
World War Memorial with columns supporting an entablature
surmounted by a coat of arms. Good marble fireplace in
porter's booth. In rear corridor a Boer War memorial formed of
brass panels. First-floor assembly hall with stage has heavy
cornice with console brackets dropping down over frieze.
Secondary stair with cast-iron balustrade. Included as a fine
early example of a London vestry hall.
Listing NGR: TQ2723185171
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 9 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478174
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 9 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/11068
War Memorials Register, accessed 9 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/11069
War Memorials Online, accessed 9 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/167209
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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