UPPER TERRACE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS

UPPER TERRACE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, UPPER TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379060
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: UPPER TERRACE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address:: UPPER TERRACE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, UPPER TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379060
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: UPPER TERRACE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: UPPER TERRACE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, UPPER TERRACE

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:: UPPER TERRACE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, UPPER TERRACE

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 26180 86145

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2686SW UPPER TERRACE 798-1/16/1656 (North side) 04/03/97 Upper Terrace House and attached walls

GV II

Detached house. c1740 as a terrace of 3 houses, some alterations c1800; remodelled as a single house 1931-2 by Oliver Hill for Colonel Reggie and Lady Cooper; additions 1937-8 by James Forbes of Forbes and Tate. Red/brown brick, slate roofs with stacks. PLAN/EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, asymmetrical plan behind regular facade remodelled by Hill. Forbes' range set at right angles to left, abutting the street and linked to walls round the site. Main elevation refronted by Hill, but there is evidence that he followed C18 work, particularly in his central parapet for which evidence of a predecessor survives. Symmetrical facade of 9 windows with slightly projecting central 3 bays. Central door and moulded surround in flamboyant Georgian style. Flush frame architraved sashes with keystones and contrasting red brick chenage. Cornice and blocking course; centre 3 bays pedimented with an oeil-de-boeuf. Garden elevation more complex. To left, symmetrical 3 bays with central C18 door, sash windows under gauged brick heads to either side, all made up of elements reused or remodelled by Hill. Projecting C19 bellcote. To right projecting facade staircase hall remodelled by Hill but with large staircase window partly infilled later C20, and shaped projecting bay (for dining room) by Hill with his tripartite window under tympanum. To right servants' area rebuilt by Forbes with sash windows behind decorative grilles and first-floor round windows in wings. Modillion eaves cornice to wing. Side elevation to street similarly treated but with shutters to first floor and tile roof behind low parapet. C18 work with blocked door at junction of C18 and 1937-8 wing. Eastern side elevation with projecting bow of c1800 date. INTERIOR: extensively replanned by Hill and his spaces survive. Central entrance hall, its decoration remodelled in late C20 and not of interest, leads right to drawing room with inserted fireplace c1760 and 1931-2 moulded cornice, and left to library with installed fireplace and panelling which includes some early C18 pieces. Oval dining room behind. Staircase hall remodelled by Hill, with screen of Ionic columns and simpler pilasters at top, and staircase treads by

Hill, the balustrade renewed late C20. First floor corridor at top of stairs, with round arches and pilasters under keystone, continues Hill's composition. The interior of the Forbes and Tate wing not of special interest. Included as an C18 building, remodelled as a single unit by Hill. Hill's facade shows how thin was the divide between stripped classicism and full-blown modernism in his work at this time, despite Vogue Regency detailing and the importation of genuine C18 elements to the interior. Col Cooper was well known for his restoration of manor houses. During the war the house was occupied by Sir Kenneth Clark, art historian. (Powers A: Oliver Hill, Architect and Lover of Life: London: 1989-: 71; Architecture Illustrated: 1933-: 190-1; The Builder: 27 January 1939: 198-9; Information from LB Camden Drainage Records).

Listing NGR: TQ2618086145

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Legacy System number:: 478426
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Powers, A, Oliver Hill Architect and Lover of Life 1887-1968, (1989), 71
'The Builder' in 27 January, (1939), 198,199
'Architecture Illustrated' in Architecture Illustrated, (1933), 190,191

Legal

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