Description

CAMDEN

TQ2684SE ETON AVENUE
798-1/61/404 (South side)
No.57

GV II

Detached house. c1889. By Harry Measures; built by William
Willett & Son. Red brick ground floor; upper floors yellow
brick with red brick dressings and pilasters at angles;
terracotta enrichment. Tiled hipped and gabled roofs with
dormer, tall brick chimney-stacks and terracotta bracketed
eaves cornice. Asymmetrical design.
EXTERIOR: 3 and 2 storeys and attics. All windows with small
stained glass top lights. Narrow right hand bay with an
unusual almost circular oriel window having a conical tiled
roof surmounted by a heraldic beast supporting a shield.
Gabled bay has a 4-light canted bay window, ground floor with
continuous bracketed sill and 1st floor apron of chequered
terracotta rosettes, rising from the semi-basement through the
1st floor which has a terracotta bracketed cornice, which
continues across the facade, supporting a terracotta parapet
with paired roundels set in rectangular recesses. Behind this,
2nd floor windows with gauged brick flat arches. Gable with
terracotta coped eaves, small window and finial. Left hand
entrance bay has projecting brick portico, with terracotta
detailing and coping to gable and a shaped entrance with
4-light window above; part-glazed panelled door, with
side-lights and overlight, approached by steps with curved
balustrade. To left, a stained glass transom and mullion
window. 1st floor has 2 windows flanking the base of a central
chimney-stack, with a terracotta cartouche, 3 recessed panels
and further panelling, which rises up through the centre of
the gable with flanking oculi. On left hand return, filling
angle between a projecting bay at 1st floor level, an unusual
glazed conservatory with curved lean-to roof and oriel windows
all having small patterned panes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2695884409

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26347864

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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