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TQ2886NE
798-1/13/922

CAMDEN
HOLLY VILLAGE
Nos.1-12 (Consecutive)

10/06/54

GV
II*
Group of twelve former estate cottages. 1865. By HA Darbishire. For Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Built by William Cubitt employing Italian craftsmen for the wood carving. Multi-colour stock brick with stone dressings; slate roofs with decorative cresting. Substantial two storey cottages in cottage ornee style picturesquely grouped around a private garden entered from street through an archway flanked by two cottages.

EXTERIOR: Nos 1 and 2 and entrance: central gabled drop archway, inscribed "Holly Village erected by AGB Coutts AD 1865", surmounted by a small crowstep gable with oriel window of three pointed lights at the apex and flanked by carved stone figures under carved wooden aedicules flanked by dormers; main gable with wooden lattice bargeboard Carved wooden Gothic two-stage lantern on ridge flanked by pairs of elaborate stone dressed chimney-stacks. Smaller arches flanking entrance form porches to gabled cottages with central projecting bays. Right hand cottage, No.2, with three-light bay window having pointed arches on colonnettes at ground floor; first floor two round-arched lancets and lozenge above; wooden lattice bargeboards with finials; pairs of elaborate stone dressed chimney-stacks. Left hand cottage, No.1, with two pointed arch windows at ground floor; first floor three-light bracketed casement with penthouse roof, flanked by diaper brickwork; a roundel above; similar bargeboards and chimneys.

No.3: detached gabled and dormered cottage with attached, asymmetrically positioned three storey elaborate Gothic tower; ground floor forming main entrance portico with trefoil arch on clustered columns, enriched band at first floor level continuing around the house, traceried lancets under pointed arcading at first floor, second floor paired pointed traceried windows set in studding with herringbone brickwork nogging; elaborate wooden parapet with carved wooden gabled spirelets. Pointed slate roof surmounted by gabled spirelet. To right, traceried window of three pointed lights at ground floor; first floor with two-light dormer having pierced bargeboards. Cusped bargeboards with finials; elaborate chimneys.

No.4: detached gabled and dormered cottage with projecting right hand bay. Main entrance porch to left with pitched slated roof and carved wooden drop arch on colonnettes. Ground
floor to right hand bay projecting with two gabled windows and slated penthouse roof. Enriched band at first floor level continuing around the house. Traceried two-light pointed window at first floor with lozenge over. Carved bargeboards of wave design and finials; elaborate chimneys.

Nos 5 and 6: semi-detached gabled and dormered pair. Entrances on returns. Outer bays projecting, each with window of three pointed lights to ground floor, enriched band at first floor continuing around the house, second floor window of two pointed lights and lozenge above. Central bays each with bay windows of four pointed lights with continuous penthouse roof forming gables at windows; first floors each with two-light dormers with pierced bargeboards. Carved bargeboards with finials and central stack of eight clustered chimneys flanked by paired chimneys, all with stone dressings.

Nos 7 and 8: semi-detached gabled and dormered pair with diaper work and enriched first floor band. Asymmetrically placed projecting bay having five pointed light canted bay window with penthouse roof at ground floor and traceried two-light pointed window at first floor with lozenge over. Slated entrance porch to right with wooden bargeboards forming trefoil arch on colonnettes; traceried four-light pointed window. Second floor with two two-light dormers having pierced bargeboards. Left hand return of projecting bay with verandah entrance having slated roof and patterned wooden supports. Carved and pierced bargeboards with finials and clustered chimneys.

Nos 9 and 10: semi-detached gabled and dormered pair similar to Nos 5 and 6 with exception of ground floor windows to central bays being flush.

No.11: detached gabled and dormered cottage with diaper work to first floor and enriched first floor band. Main entrance at angle of main range and projecting right hand bay. Porch of pointed arcading, with trefoil entrance arch on geometrically patterned base; slated mansard roof with gable over entrance arch. Traceried three-light pointed window to left and two-light and one-light dormers with pierced bargeboards to first floor. Projecting bay with three individual pointed lights at ground floor and bracketed bay window of three pointed lights and roundel above at first floor. Cusped bargeboards with finials and enriched rectangular chimney-stack at angle of cross roofs.

No.12: detached gabled and dormered cottage with diaper work to ground floor and first floor on right return. Main entrance in projecting three storey Gothic tower at right hand angle. Ground floor forms porch with entrance of cusped pointed arch on colonnettes flanked by carved roundels. Enriched band at first floor level continuing around the house. first floor with three lancets under elaborate wooden bracketed gable hoods with carved gargoyles at angles and geometrically patterned studding above. Second floor with studding forming traceried blind arcading and central two-light traceried pointed arch dormer windows. Carved wooden spirelets at angles and pointed roof. Central bay with single pointed light at ground floor and two pointed lights at first floor. Projecting left hand bay with traceried three-light pointed window to ground floor and similar two-light window with lozenge over at first floor. Carved and pierced bargeboards with finials. Elaborate chimney-stacks at angle of cross roofs.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: a model venture for private rent to those on considerable incomes. Holly Village was never lived in by her estate workers or Coutts Bank clerks. The Village was purchased by its tenants in 1921.

Listing NGR: TQ2858886501

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548853

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