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Numbers 21 and 23 and Walls and Gate Piers

A Grade II Listed Building in Hampstead Town, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5596 / 51°33'34"N

Longitude: -0.1733 / 0°10'24"W

OS Eastings: 526722

OS Northings: 186101

OS Grid: TQ267861

Mapcode National: GBR D0.GYT

Mapcode Global: VHGQR.Y268

Plus Code: 9C3XHR5G+RM

Entry Name: Numbers 21 and 23 and Walls and Gate Piers

Listing Date: 11 January 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379164

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478531

ID on this website: 101379164

Location: Vale of Health, Camden, London, NW3

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Hampstead Town

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Christ Church Hampstead

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description



CAMDEN

TQ2686SE WELL WALK
798-1/17/1820 (North West side)
Nos.21 AND 23
and walls and gate piers

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.1 AND 2 FOLEY AVENUE.
Pair of semi-detached houses. 1881-82. By Henry Legg. For
Edward Gotto. Red brick with moulded brick panels, sandstone
and granite dressings, coved moulded plaster eaves, brown
tiled roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic with double row of dormers.
Original fenestration with ornamental glazing and coloured
glass in upper lights. Prominent chimney-stacks with ribbed
flanks and moulded caps. Cast-iron straining arches inscribed
F and 1882 connect Nos 21 and 23 with Nos 25 and 27 (qv).
Southern house, No.21, bears sandstone tablet inscribed 1
FOLEY TERRACE. Sandstone entrance porch with balustrade over
arched doorway flanked by cartouches. 3-storey bay projection
with pitched octagonal roof bearing weathervane. Venetian
window to first floor with carved keystone depicting a man's
head.
Northern house, No.23, inscribed 2 FOLEY AVENUE. Projecting
frontispiece of gauged brick with balustrades at first and
second floor levels above pilastered entrance.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
These houses with Nos 25 and 27 (qv) form a prominent group,
massively scaled and with bulbous details, adjoining the
listed Chalybeate well, also by Legg.
(The Builder: 3 June 1882: 683 AND ILLUSTRATION; Wade C: The
Streets of Hampstead: London: -1984: 36).


Listing NGR: TQ2671186096

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