Numbers 21 and 23 and Walls and Gate Piers
NUMBERS 21 AND 23 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 21 AND 23, WELL WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379164
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 21 and 23 and Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 21 AND 23 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 21 AND 23, WELL WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379164
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 21 and 23 and Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 21 AND 23 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 21 AND 23, WELL WALK
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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:
- NUMBERS 21 AND 23 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 21 AND 23, WELL WALK
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 26722 86100
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2686SE WELL WALK
798-1/17/1820 (North West side)
Nos.21 AND 23
and walls and gate piers
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.1 AND 2 FOLEY AVENUE.
Pair of semi-detached houses. 1881-82. By Henry Legg. For
Edward Gotto. Red brick with moulded brick panels, sandstone
and granite dressings, coved moulded plaster eaves, brown
tiled roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic with double row of dormers.
Original fenestration with ornamental glazing and coloured
glass in upper lights. Prominent chimney-stacks with ribbed
flanks and moulded caps. Cast-iron straining arches inscribed
F and 1882 connect Nos 21 and 23 with Nos 25 and 27 (qv).
Southern house, No.21, bears sandstone tablet inscribed 1
FOLEY TERRACE. Sandstone entrance porch with balustrade over
arched doorway flanked by cartouches. 3-storey bay projection
with pitched octagonal roof bearing weathervane. Venetian
window to first floor with carved keystone depicting a man's
head.
Northern house, No.23, inscribed 2 FOLEY AVENUE. Projecting
frontispiece of gauged brick with balustrades at first and
second floor levels above pilastered entrance.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
These houses with Nos 25 and 27 (qv) form a prominent group,
massively scaled and with bulbous details, adjoining the
listed Chalybeate well, also by Legg.
(The Builder: 3 June 1882: 683 AND ILLUSTRATION; Wade C: The
Streets of Hampstead: London: -1984: 36).
Listing NGR: TQ2671186096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478531
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wade, C, The Streets of Hampstead, (1984), 36
The Builder in 3rd June, (1882), 683
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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