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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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
CAMDEN
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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