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Latitude: 51.5694 / 51°34'9"N
Longitude: -0.1506 / 0°9'2"W
OS Eastings: 528271
OS Northings: 187236
OS Grid: TQ282872
Mapcode National: GBR DT.W58
Mapcode Global: VHGQL.BTR8
Plus Code: 9C3XHR9X+QQ
Entry Name: The Old Hall
Listing Date: 10 June 1954
Last Amended: 11 January 1999
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378770
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478123
ID on this website: 101378770
Location: Parliament Hill, Camden, London, N6
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Highgate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Michael Highgate
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/07/2017
TQ 2887 SW,
798-1/5/1467
CAMDEN,
SOUTH GROVE (South side),
The Old Hall
(Formerly listed as: Old Hall, Nos.1-7 (consec); previously listed as: SOUTH GROVE Old Hall Nos.2-7 (consec); formerly listed as No. 1 South Grove)
10/06/54
GV
II*
Detached house with later extensions; now flats. Main block,
c1694 with later refronting, some rebuilding late C20;
north-east wing, C16 range of former Arundel House, much
altered and refronted later C18; south-west extension, mid C19
addition now forming No.1 South Grove.
Main block: brown brick with red brick dressings. Tiled
double-pitched roof. Three storeys and basements. Double fronted with five
windows and one window slightly recessed extension to left.
Entrance bay slightly projecting; early C19 porch with fluted
Doric columns carrying entablature; doorway with fluted
surround and stops, fanlight and panelled door. Gauged red
brick flat arches to flush-framed sashes with exposed boxing.
Plain brick band at first-floor level. Moulded brick cornice
below parapet. Rear elevation with segmental-arched flush
framed sashes with exposed boxing and bowed projection to
left, through ground and first storeys with three windows and
parapet with balustraded panels.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted to retain the original
staircase, some original panelling and later panelling. Rooms
with bowed bays to rear believed to retain; ground floor, a
1595 interior taken from a house on the South Quay, Yarmouth;
1st floor, a basically Jacobean interior from Castleton Manor,
Rochdale: both installed by Lord Rochdale c1922. Basement has
a C17 ceiling beam and cornice.
North-east wing: two storeys five windows. Brown brick with hipped
roof. Segmental arched recessed sashes. South-west extension:
2-storey gabled extension in brown brick with red brick
dressings. Gauged brick cambered arches to recessed sashes.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir William Cornwallis, son of Sir Thomas,
Comptroller of the Household to Queen Mary, purchased what was
to be called Arundel House in 1588. Thomas, 2nd Earl of
Arundel acquired the house in 1610. Francis Bacon died there
1626.
(West London: RCHM: London: 90).
Listing NGR: TQ2828087243
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