Romneys House
ROMNEYS HOUSE, HOLLY BUSH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1379069
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Romneys House
- Statutory Address:
- ROMNEYS HOUSE, HOLLY BUSH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1379069
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Romneys House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMNEYS HOUSE, HOLLY BUSH 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:
- ROMNEYS HOUSE, HOLLY BUSH 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 26306 85916
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2685NW HOLLY BUSH HILL
798-1/26/892 (East side)
11/08/50 Romney's House
GV I
End of terrace house. 1797. Built by the artist George Romney
as his studio (plaque); enlarged 1807 at east end for use as
Assembly Rooms; in 1929 redesigned by and for Clough
Williams-Ellis. Original 2 storey house timber-framed with
weatherboarding. Slated roof.
Main front on north side: brown brick ground floor and
weatherboarded 1st floor. Symmetrical 3 window facade. Good
central doorway with fluted pilasters carrying carved
console-bracketed hood, patterned radial fanlight and panelled
door. Flush framed sashes. Hipped roof with dormers.
West end facing road: slightly lower with brown brick ground
floor and weatherboarded 1st floor slightly projecting as a
flat segmental bay with hipped roof.
East end: with Assembly Room extension believed to retain good
geometrical staircase and pilasters to assembly room on 1st
floor. Stucco portico with pilasters carrying entablature and
architraved doorway.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the stables, now Holly Bush Public House,
Holly Mount (qv), were converted c1807 to form a catering wing
for the Assembly Rooms.
Listing NGR: TQ2630685916
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478435
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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