The Logs and Attached Wall and Archway, Hampstead Town, London

Entry Name: The Logs and Attached Wall and Archway

Listing Date: 14 May 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379149

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478515

ID on this website: 101379149

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

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Description

CAMDEN

TQ2686SE CANNON LANE
798-1/17/1690 Nos.1, 2 AND 3
14/05/74

See under: Nos.17-20 The Logs and attached wall and archway
WELL ROAD.

CAMDEN

TQ2686SE WELL ROAD
798-1/17/1690 (South West side)
14/05/74 Nos.17-20 (Consecutive)
The Logs and attached wall and
archway

Includes: Nos.1, 2 AND 3 CANNON LANE.
Large detached villa now subdivided. c1868. By JS Nightingale.
For Edward Gotto who added the wings each side c1876. Built by
Charles Till. 1951, divided into maisonettes. Yellow stock
brick with red brick and stone dressings and diaper work.
Hipped tiled and slated roofs with ornate projecting bracketed
eaves and tall, thin ornate chimney-stacks; tower with
truncated pyramidal roof (originally with cresting) and
round-arched dormer; elaborate masonry finials on corners.
Irregular plan. An eccentric mixture of Gothic, Italianate and
other styles. Mainly 2 storeys with 4 storey central tower.
Irregular fenestration. Entrances mostly altered. Ground floor
windows stone canted bays; upper floors round-arched.
Elaborate plaque with initials EG on north side of house.
INTERIOR: not inspected but some features noted to survive, eg
Minton tiles, serpentine and Plymouth rock. Interior of tower
with good oval staircase.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached stone capped brick garden wall
with dentil cornice (originally surmounted by cast-iron
cresting); gabled gateway to No.19 on Well Road with pointed
arch opening having keystone inscribed "Lion House" and carved
stone lion-like creatures, 2 to each side of gable; base of
gateway with paired inset colonnettes and enriched corbels;
panelled double doors.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Gotto was a successful civil engineer and
developer of land in this part of Hampstead.

Listing NGR: TQ2669486185

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