New Hall

NEW HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1379298
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1951
Statutory Address:
NEW HALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1379298
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1951
Statutory Address 1:
NEW HALL

Location

Statutory Address:
NEW HALL

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 30923 81408

Details

CAMDEN

TQ3081SE LINCOLN'S INN
798-1/106/1040 (West side)
24/10/51 New Hall

GV II*

Banqueting hall with offices. c1843-5. By Philip Hardwick with
PC Hardwick & John Loughborough Pearson. Red brick with blue
diapers and stone dressings. Slate roof with tall, decorative
brick chimneys. Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and semi-basement. Rectangular plan of
7-bay hall, plus lobby and entrance. Linked at north end to
adjoining Library (qv). Gabled south end with 7-light,
traceried window flanked by square twin towers. East and west
elevations with five 8-light square-headed windows, separated
by stone dressed buttresses topped with decorative stone
finials rising through the embattled parapet, and 2 large bay
windows at the high table end. 2-tier glazed fleche with
weathervane. Lobby with octagonal turret in roof. Entrance
approached by 3 flights of steps.
INTERIOR: hall with hammer-beam trusses. Screen at south end;
on north wall fresco "Justice, The Hemicycle of The Law
Givers" by G F Watts, 1852-9.
HISTORICAL NOTE: one of the earliest secular expressions of
the revived historicism of Victorian architecture, made more
correct in style by PC Hardwick who took over the commission
when in 1843 his father became seriously ill. New Hall was
restored c1984-87 by Peter Locke & Tony Dyson of Donald Insall
Associates, particular attention being given to the roof and
fresco.



Listing NGR: TQ3092781408

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478667
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