81, 82 AND 83, HIGHGATE WEST HILL
81, 82 AND 83, HIGHGATE WEST HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379057
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 81, 82 AND 83, HIGHGATE WEST HILL
- Statutory Address:
- 81, 82 AND 83, HIGHGATE WEST HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379057
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 81, 82 AND 83, HIGHGATE WEST HILL
- Statutory Address 1:
- 81, 82 AND 83, HIGHGATE WEST 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:
- 81, 82 AND 83, HIGHGATE WEST 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 28161 87139
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2887SW HIGHGATE WEST HILL
798-1/5/882 (East side)
14/05/74 Nos.81, 82 AND 83
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGHGATE WEST HILL
Nos.81-84 (Consecutive))
GV II
3 terraced houses. Nos 81 & 82 mid C18, originally one house
on the site of a C16 house. By end of C18, it was 2 residences
and No.83 added. 1823, Nos 82 & 83 became one house. Stucco. 3
storeys. 3 windows centre (No.82), each in arched recess
extending through 1st and 2nd floor. 3 window projecting wing
on north side (No.81). 1 window projecting wings on south side
(No.83). No.82 with fluted Doric portico, reeded door
surround, patterned fanlight with central lantern and panelled
door. Garden front of 7 windows with continuous cast-iron
balcony at 1st floor across 3 window centre on iron arched
supports. Nos 81 & 82 have 2 very large chimneys, possibly
from earlier house.
INTERIORS: No. 81 retains two early C19 rooms with cornices
and fireplaces; later C19 room to side similarly complete.
Rear wing of No. 81 c.1960 for C S Rothery, RAF pilot, a
modern but not inappropriate addition.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick forecourt wall with
entrances of coupled square columns and wrought-iron gates.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.81 was the home of Lewis Vulliamy,
architect; the back garden believed to contain a probable ice
well.
(Survey of London: Vol. XVII, The Village of Highgate (Parish
of St Pancras part I): London: -1936: 68).
Listing NGR: TQ2816987146
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478423
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Village of Highgate The Parish of St Pancras Part 1: Volume 17 , (1936), 68
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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