The Logs and Attached Wall and Archway

1, 2 AND 3, CANNON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1379149
Date first listed:
14-May-1974
Statutory Address:
1, 2 AND 3, CANNON LANE
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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1379149
Date first listed:
14-May-1974
Statutory Address 1:
1, 2 AND 3, CANNON LANE
Statutory Address 2:
THE LOGS AND ATTACHED WALL AND ARCHWAY, 17-20, WELL ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
1, 2 AND 3, CANNON LANE
Statutory Address:
THE LOGS AND ATTACHED WALL AND ARCHWAY, 17-20, WELL 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 26694 86185

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2686SE CANNON LANE
798-1/17/1690 Nos.1, 2 AND 3
14/05/74

II

See under: Nos.17-20 The Logs and attached wall and archway
WELL ROAD.




CAMDEN

TQ2686SE WELL ROAD
798-1/17/1690 (South West side)
14/05/74 Nos.17-20 (Consecutive)
The Logs and attached wall and
archway

II

Includes: Nos.1, 2 AND 3 CANNON LANE.
Large detached villa now subdivided. c1868. By JS Nightingale.
For Edward Gotto who added the wings each side c1876. Built by
Charles Till. 1951, divided into maisonettes. Yellow stock
brick with red brick and stone dressings and diaper work.
Hipped tiled and slated roofs with ornate projecting bracketed
eaves and tall, thin ornate chimney-stacks; tower with
truncated pyramidal roof (originally with cresting) and
round-arched dormer; elaborate masonry finials on corners.
Irregular plan. An eccentric mixture of Gothic, Italianate and
other styles. Mainly 2 storeys with 4 storey central tower.
Irregular fenestration. Entrances mostly altered. Ground floor
windows stone canted bays; upper floors round-arched.
Elaborate plaque with initials EG on north side of house.
INTERIOR: not inspected but some features noted to survive, eg
Minton tiles, serpentine and Plymouth rock. Interior of tower
with good oval staircase.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached stone capped brick garden wall
with dentil cornice (originally surmounted by cast-iron
cresting); gabled gateway to No.19 on Well Road with pointed
arch opening having keystone inscribed "Lion House" and carved
stone lion-like creatures, 2 to each side of gable; base of
gateway with paired inset colonnettes and enriched corbels;
panelled double doors.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Gotto was a successful civil engineer and
developer of land in this part of Hampstead.


Listing NGR: TQ2669486185

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