Description

CAMDEN

TQ2885NE HIGHGATE ROAD
798-1/31/855 (West side)
14/05/74 No.137
Southampton House

II

House, now divided into flats. Early C19, restored and altered
mid/late C20. Yellow stock brick with plain stucco 1st floor
sill band.
3 storeys and semi-basement. Double-fronted with 3 windows.
Ground floor openings in shallow arched recesses; entrance,
approached by steps, in round-arched recess with patterned
fanlight, pilaster-jambs carrying cornice-head and panelled
door. Segmental arched recessed sashes with pointed lights in
segmental-arched recesses. Upper floor sashes with gauged
brick flat arches. Stucco plaque centrally at 2nd floor level
inscribed "Southampton House". Parapet.
INTERIOR: altered in C20 but retains stair with cast-iron
stick balusters, column newel and wreathed wooden handrail.
Doorways of hallway and entrance door with reeded frames
having stops of female masks wreathed in corn.
HISTORICAL NOTE: during the early C19 this was the Southampton
House Academy run by Capt John Bickerstaffe. Originally with a
side wing.
(Survey of London: Vol. XIX, Old St Pancras and Kentish Town
(St Pancras Part II): London: -1938: 57).

Listing NGR: TQ2861485749

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086382

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]