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Latitude: 51.5595 / 51°33'34"N
Longitude: -0.1781 / 0°10'41"W
OS Eastings: 526393
OS Northings: 186089
OS Grid: TQ263860
Mapcode National: GBR D0.FSB
Mapcode Global: VHGQR.V2Q9
Plus Code: 9C3XHR5C+RQ
Entry Name: Friends Meeting House
Listing Date: 11 January 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378849
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478207
ID on this website: 101378849
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
Tagged with: Arts and Crafts movement Quaker meeting house
CAMDEN
TQ2686SW HEATH STREET
798-1/16/820 (East side)
No.120
Friends Meeting House
GV II
Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting House. 1907. By Frederick
Rowntree. Stucco with brick ground floor to left hand return.
Tiled gabled roof with tall buttressed chimney-stack on
return. Arts and Crafts Free Style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. Gabled Heath Street facade
with semicircular timber porch of distyle-in-antis columns,
their pedestals on the 2nd of 3 stone steps, supporting a deep
entablature with copper half-dome; panelled doors, part-glazed
with small panes, and brass handles. To right, a transom and
mullion window with glazing bars. Similarly detailed Venetian
style window at 1st floor level. Left hand return to Hampstead
Square with grilled semi-basement windows; left hand gabled
bay with 3 2-light square-headed casements in shallow
segmental-arched recesses with louvred shutters and a keyed
oculus in the apex, all with small panes; right hand bay with
a single and a 3-light window and a box dormer breaking
through over-hanging eaves, all with glazing bars.
INTERIOR: plain with Arts and Crafts detailing. A small lobby
leads into a hall with a motif of shallow arches around the
walls. 1st floor library with fireplace.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Frederick Rowntree was an architect member of
the famous Quaker chocolate manufacturing family from
Yorkshire, who designed a series of Friends' Meeting Houses
around the country.
Listing NGR: TQ2639686084
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