Description

CAMDEN

TQ2686SW HEATH STREET
798-1/16/1767 (East side)
Boundary wall, piers and southern
gate

GV II

Boundary wall. Early C18 and later. Pink-red bricks, with
stone copings to gate piers, in Flemish bond. The wall runs
from the northernmost pair of gate piers 20m north of the most
northerly of two K6 telephone kiosks (qv) 60m long and about 2
or more metres in height. Later C19 phase of pink-yellow brick
between middle and southern gate piers; adjoining 70m length
of yellow brick in Dutch bond beginning at second of 2
distinctive insets. 3 gate piers are set into the wall, the 2
most southerly with wrought-iron overthrows. Spiked iron
bracket in bend of first inset. C18 wrought-iron gate set
within southernmost gate piers. Renewed coping along entire
length.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this wall was formerly attached to the Upper
Flask Tavern, summer meeting place of the Kit-Kat Club, and
referred to in Richardson's 'Clarissa' (1748). The tavern was
converted to domestic use in the later C18 and renamed Upper
Heath. The house was demolished in 1922 when Queen Mary's
Maternity Home was built.
The wall is depicted in several topographical prints of the
former Upper Flask: they show that the middle section, the C19
section of pink-yellow bricks, replaced a dwarf wall that
stood in front of the west side of Upper Heath which enabled
the view towards Harrow to be enjoyed. Anna Maxwell's
'Hampstead', c1910, p.45 declared that 'no remnant of old
Hampstead is more arresting than the sight of the strong, high
garden wall at the summit of Heath Street, with its ancient
towering trees within.'
(Maxwell A: Hampstead: London: 1910-: 45; Barratt T: The
Annals of Hampstead: London: 1912-: 200).

Listing NGR: TQ2635786152

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086298

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990