SOUTHAMPTON HOUSE

SOUTHAMPTON HOUSE, 137, HIGHGATE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378946
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: SOUTHAMPTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SOUTHAMPTON HOUSE, 137, HIGHGATE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378946
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: SOUTHAMPTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTHAMPTON HOUSE, 137, HIGHGATE ROAD

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:: SOUTHAMPTON HOUSE, 137, HIGHGATE ROAD

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 28614 85749

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2885NE HIGHGATE ROAD 798-1/31/855 (West side) 14/05/74 No.137 Southampton House

II

House, now divided into flats. Early C19, restored and altered mid/late C20. Yellow stock brick with plain stucco 1st floor sill band. 3 storeys and semi-basement. Double-fronted with 3 windows. Ground floor openings in shallow arched recesses; entrance, approached by steps, in round-arched recess with patterned fanlight, pilaster-jambs carrying cornice-head and panelled door. Segmental arched recessed sashes with pointed lights in segmental-arched recesses. Upper floor sashes with gauged brick flat arches. Stucco plaque centrally at 2nd floor level inscribed "Southampton House". Parapet. INTERIOR: altered in C20 but retains stair with cast-iron stick balusters, column newel and wreathed wooden handrail. Doorways of hallway and entrance door with reeded frames having stops of female masks wreathed in corn. HISTORICAL NOTE: during the early C19 this was the Southampton House Academy run by Capt John Bickerstaffe. Originally with a side wing. (Survey of London: Vol. XIX, Old St Pancras and Kentish Town (St Pancras Part II): London: -1938: 57).

Listing NGR: TQ2861485749

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Legacy System number:: 478309
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Survey of London' in Old St Pancras and Kentish Town The Parish of St Pancras Part 2: Volume 19 , (1938), 57

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.