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Nationwide Anglia Building Society

A Grade II Listed Building in Hampstead Town, London

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Latitude: 51.5569 / 51°33'24"N

Longitude: -0.1787 / 0°10'43"W

OS Eastings: 526357

OS Northings: 185792

OS Grid: TQ263857

Mapcode National: GBR D0.MLQ

Mapcode Global: VHGQR.V4CB

Plus Code: 9C3XHR4C+PG

Entry Name: Nationwide Anglia Building Society

Listing Date: 14 May 1974

Last Amended: 11 January 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1378826

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478183

ID on this website: 101378826

Location: Hampstead, 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: St John Hampstead

Church of England Diocese: London

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TQ2685NW HEATH STREET
798-1/26/797 (West side)
14/05/74 No.49
Nationwide Anglia Building Society
(Formerly Listed as:
HEATH STREET
No.49
National Westminster Bank)

II

Fire station, later bank, now building society with
accommodation over. c1873. By GJ Vulliamy as head of the
Metropolitan Board of Works' Architects' Department. Red brick
with stone and terracotta dressings. Tiled gabled roof with
stone bracketed eaves cornice. Venetian Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with irregular 3-5 storeys return to Holly
Hill. Irregular fenestration. 3-stage rectangular clock tower
rising from 1st floor on left hand return. Heath Street facade
with C20 stone faced shopfrontage. 1st floor, 5-light arcaded
window of attached columns carrying pointed arches; centre
light blind with patterned terracotta plaque; stone sill
string. Arch heads break into enriched stone and terracotta
band at 2nd floor level inscribed "MBW AD 1873". Half-hipped
gable with 2-light 2nd floor window in pointed arch recess
with enriched tympanum and apron. Clock tower with dentil
cornice at roof level and above narrow opening on each facade.
Clock face on each facade with continuous projecting modillion
cornice above. Return with gabled end bay having cornice at
3rd floor level; mostly paired sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the watch tower was also a water tower, one
of the first buildings for London's new horse-drawn fire
brigade to have one. Originally also with steeple. The fire
station closed 1915 when a new one opened in Lancaster Grove.


Listing NGR: TQ2635785792

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