Description

CAMDEN

TQ2785SW HAVERSTOCK HILL
798-1/39/789 (South West side)
01/08/94 Hampstead Town Hall and attached
walls & piers

II

Town hall, now council offices. 1877-8. By HE Kendall and
Frederick Mew. Red brick, rusticated at ground floor level,
with stone dressings. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical design. Central stone-cased entrance
with panelled pilasters supporting mask console brackets to
pediment with carved, foliated cartouche and acroterion;
double part-glazed panelled doors, with 2 rectangular
overlights and a further overlight, approached by wide steps
with low stone balustrades having elaborately enriched
cast-iron lampstandards with ladder bars and Windsor lanterns.
To each side of the entrance, 3 stone architraved sashes with
scrolled pediments incorporating architraved oculi. Dentil
cornice at 1st floor level below a blind balustrade with
panels of carved enrichment. 3 tall round-arched central
windows flanked by brick pilasters linked by impost bands;
pilasters marking bays and angles continue in fluted stone to
support an entablature with "Town Hall" inscribed on the
frieze and modillion cornice crowned by a pediment with oculus
above central bay and parapet above outer bays. Returns
without entrances but in similar style and having friezes
inscribed "Erected AD 1877".
INTERIOR: with many original details including cornices,
fireplaces, clocks and radiators. Top-lit entrance hall with
patterned tile floor and Imperial stair with elaborate
cast-iron balusters and newels having brass lamp-holders. At
1st landing, a round-arched mirror in marble surround with
clock in pediment. In right hand stair well, a marble 1st
World War Memorial with columns supporting an entablature
surmounted by a coat of arms. Good marble fireplace in
porter's booth. In rear corridor a Boer War memorial formed of
brass panels. First-floor assembly hall with stage has heavy
cornice with console brackets dropping down over frieze.
Secondary stair with cast-iron balustrade. Included as a fine
early example of a London vestry hall.

Listing NGR: TQ2723185171

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 9 February 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hampstead Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q27086263

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