VOLTA HOUSE, BOLTON HOUSE, WINDMILL HILL HOUSE AND ENFIELD HOUSE

VOLTA HOUSE, BOLTON HOUSE, WINDMILL HILL HOUSE AND ENFIELD HOUSE, WINDMILL HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379202
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1950
List Entry Name:: VOLTA HOUSE, BOLTON HOUSE, WINDMILL HILL HOUSE AND ENFIELD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: VOLTA HOUSE, BOLTON HOUSE, WINDMILL HILL HOUSE AND ENFIELD HOUSE, WINDMILL HILL

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Date:: 2005-02-26
Reference:: IOE01/13452/17
Rights:: © Norman Wigg. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379202
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: VOLTA HOUSE, BOLTON HOUSE, WINDMILL HILL HOUSE AND ENFIELD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: VOLTA HOUSE, BOLTON HOUSE, WINDMILL HILL HOUSE AND ENFIELD HOUSE, WINDMILL HILL

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:: VOLTA HOUSE, BOLTON HOUSE, WINDMILL HILL HOUSE AND ENFIELD HOUSE, WINDMILL 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 26261 85972

Details

TQ2685NW

798-1/26/1729

CAMDEN, WINDMILL HILL (East side), Volta House, Bolton House, Windmill Hill House and Enfield House

(Previously listed as Volta House, Bolton House and Windmill Hill House including former Enfield House.

Formerly Listed as: WINDMILL HILL, Volta House, Bolton House, Windmill Hill House.

Formerly Listed as: WINDMILL HILL, Enfield House)

11/08/50

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses and a later addition (Enfield House). Terrace c.1720-30, refaced late C19 in Georgian style; Enfield House, late C18. Multi-coloured stock brick with red brick dressings, moulded brick bands and brick pilasters at angles and between Bolton and Windmill Hill House. Tiled mansard roofs with 1 dormer each.

EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 3 windows each; Windmill Hill House plus full height 3-window canted bay. Volta House and Bolton House with good doorcases having flat hoods on carved consoles; architraved doorways with fanlights, Volta House with lamp-holder, and panelled doors. Windmill Hill House with mid C19 stucco porch and entrance at east side in lower 2 storey extension. Gauged red brick flat arches to flush framed sashes with exposed boxing. Parapets.

INTERIORS: not inspected but noted to retain good panelling; staircases with open strings, carved brackets, moulded handrails, turned balusters and column newels.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to forecourts with urn finials.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Bolton House was the home of Joanna Baillie, Scottish literary lioness, from 1791 to 1851 and where Byron, Wordsworth, Keats and Sir Walter Scott stayed (LCC plaque).

Listing NGR: TQ2626185972

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 478569
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.