25 and 27-29 Well Walk and walls and gate piers
25 and 27-29, Well Walk, London, NW3 1BY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379165
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 25 and 27-29 Well Walk and walls and gate piers
- Statutory Address:
- 25 and 27-29, Well Walk, London, NW3 1BY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379165
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 25 and 27-29 Well Walk and walls and gate piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25 and 27-29, Well Walk, London, NW3 1BY
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:
- 25 and 27-29, Well Walk, London, NW3 1BY
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 26731 86119
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 September 2024 to update the name and addressand reformat the text to current standards.
TQ2686SE
798-1/17/1821
CAMDEN
WELL WALK (north west side)
Nos.25 and 27-29 and walls and gate piers
(Formerly listed as Nos.25 AND 27 and walls and gate piers)
GV
II
Formerly known as: Nos.3 AND 4 FOLEY AVENUE.
Pair of semi-detached houses. 1881-82. By Henry Legg. For Edward Gotto. Red brick with sandstone and granite dressings, moulded plaster eaves, brown tiled roof.
EXTERIOR: three 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 the houses with Nos 21 and 23 (qv).
Southern house of pair, No.25, bears sandstone tablet inscribed 3 FOLEY AVENUE. Prominent oriel at first and second floor level carried on engaged granite column, with sandstone base bearing carved leaf decoration. Arched window on ground floor with apron of cut brick.
Northern house, No.27, with sandstone tablet inscribed 4 FOLEY AVENUE. Projecting angle turret carried on free-standing granite column with foliate capital supporting gadrooned turret base, and an ionion dome tiled roof with finial. Return elevation has dentil cornice and three storey projecting bay. Gate pier of brick and sandstone inscribed FOLEY AVENUE.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
Nos 25 and 27-29 , with Nos 21 and 23 (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: -1984: 36).
Listing NGR: TQ2673186126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478532
- 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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