Description

CAMDEN

TQ2983SW OAKLEY SQUARE
798-1/83/1244 (West side)
The Old Vicarage and attached
railings, gate & wall

GV II

Vicarage, now a private residence. 1861. By John Johnson.
Yellow stock brick with stone, red brick and dark yellow brick
bands, patterning and dressings. Slate pitched roofs with red
cresting, tall brick chimney-stack to rear and pyramidal roof
to stair tower. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement. Asymmetrical design.
A deep band of zig-zag patterned brickwork, outlined with
stone, runs around the building. Entrance in lower
mono-pitched roof bay to right; round-arched panelled door
with quatrefoil and trefoil-headed glazed panels under a
gabled trefoil porch supported on Decorated columns; carved
Agnus Dei in apex. To right, a trefoil headed lancet and
2-pane sash with shaped stone lintel to 1st floor. Left hand
gabled bay has canted bay windows rising from the basement to
the 2nd floor and terminating with a penthouse roof beneath a
2-light window with trefoil heads, colonnette and quatrefoil
under a pointed arch. Ground floor central window with
colonnette and foil enrichment. Right hand return has
irregular similar style windows and stair-tower with deep
diaper patterned band with oculi below the eaves. Decorated
cast-iron rainwater heads.
INTERIOR: retains original features with Gothic fireplaces,
cornices and stair with twisted balusters and quatrefoil
fretwork.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with enriched
cross finials and entrance gate, set in Kentish ragstone
random rubble, stone capped wall.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Church of St Matthew, also by Johnson,
but now demolished, stood to the right. The architect was best
known for his designs for Alexandra Palace.

Listing NGR: TQ2934183378

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084314

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