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25 and 27-29 Well Walk and walls and gate piers

A Grade II Listed Building in Hampstead Town, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5597 / 51°33'35"N

Longitude: -0.1732 / 0°10'23"W

OS Eastings: 526731

OS Northings: 186119

OS Grid: TQ267861

Mapcode National: GBR D0.H04

Mapcode Global: VHGQR.Y294

Plus Code: 9C3XHR5G+VP

Entry Name: 25 and 27-29 Well Walk and walls and gate piers

Listing Date: 11 January 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379165

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478532

ID on this website: 101379165

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


This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 September 2024 to update the name and addressand reformat the text to current standards.

TQ2686SE
798-1/17/1821

CAMDEN
WELL WALK (north west side)
Nos.25 and 27-29 and walls and gate piers

(Formerly listed as Nos.25 AND 27 and walls and gate piers)


GV
II
Formerly known as: Nos.3 AND 4 FOLEY AVENUE.

Pair of semi-detached houses. 1881-82. By Henry Legg. For Edward Gotto. Red brick with sandstone and granite dressings, moulded plaster eaves, brown tiled roof.

EXTERIOR: three storeys plus attic with double row of dormers. Original fenestration with ornamental glazing and coloured glass in upper lights. Prominent chimney-stacks with ribbed flanks and moulded caps. Cast-iron straining arches inscribed 'F' and '1882' connect the houses with Nos 21 and 23 (qv).

Southern house of pair, No.25, bears sandstone tablet inscribed 3 FOLEY AVENUE. Prominent oriel at first and second floor level carried on engaged granite column, with sandstone base bearing carved leaf decoration. Arched window on ground floor with apron of cut brick.

Northern house, No.27, with sandstone tablet inscribed 4 FOLEY AVENUE. Projecting angle turret carried on free-standing granite column with foliate capital supporting gadrooned turret base, and an ionion dome tiled roof with finial. Return elevation has dentil cornice and three storey projecting bay. Gate pier of brick and sandstone inscribed FOLEY AVENUE.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

Nos 25 and 27-29 , with Nos 21 and 23 (qv), form a prominent group, massively scaled and with bulbous details, adjoining the listed Chalybeate well, also by Legg.

(The Builder: 3 June 1882: 683 AND ILLUSTRATION; Wade C: The Streets of Hampstead: -1984: 36).

Listing NGR: TQ2673186126

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