Description

CAMDEN

TQ2684NW MARESFIELD GARDENS
798-1/49/1107 (East side)
14/05/74 No.20

II

Detached house, now a museum. Early C20. Red brick with
rusticated brick quoins. Tiled roof with 3, tall
chimney-stacks and upswept eaves with modillion eaves cornice.
C17 style. 2 storeys and attic. 5 windows plus asymmetrically
set 3-window canted entrance bay. Doorway with cornice-head
flanked by console-brackets supporting broken pediment hood;
door with panels shaped to oculus. Subsidiary part-glazed
panelled door to left. Flat arches to flush framed sashes with
exposed boxing. Entrance bay with tall transom and mullion
windows to 1st floor.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: plaque records this as the home of Sigmund
Freud in exile from the summer of 1938 until his death in
September 1939. Following his death the house was lived in by
Anna Freud (d.1982), his daughter and herself a leading
psychoanalyst. In 1986 the house was opened as a museum
reflecting the life and work of father and daughter, including
the former's collection of antiquities and much of his
furniture, including 'The Couch'.

Listing NGR: TQ2648284855

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Freud Museum London at Wikipedia
• Freud Museum London official website
• Wikidata Q1455777

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)