Description

CAMDEN

TQ2685SE LYNDHURST GARDENS
798-1/38/1088 (East side)
No.22

GV II

Detached house. c1886. By Harry Measures. For William Willett
and Son, builder-developers. Red brick ground floor, upper
floors yellow brick with red brick dressings and pilasters to
right hand angles; rubbed brick and terracotta enrichment.
Tiled hipped and gabled roofs with dormers and wide, tall
brick slab chimney-stacks with shaped end ends and rubbed
brick cornices to both returns.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attics and semi-basement. Irregular
fenestration of 3 windows. Ground floor windows with stained
glass top lights; upper floor sashes with glazing bars to top
halves only. Projecting gabled right hand bay with 3-light
canted bay window rising from the semi-basement through the
1st floor; ground floor windows with gauged brick flat arches,
shaped keystones and continuous bracketed sill, 1st floor has
enriched terracotta frieze lintel which continues across the
facade. Above, a parapet to 2nd floor tripartite sash with
pilasters supporting a dentil entablature lintel with open
pediment breaking into the gable. Console stepped gable with
red brick bands linked by projecting vertical and horizontal
elements; finial missing top.
Central projecting entrance bay with ground floor forming a
portico with round-arched openings; entrance with enriched
spandrels flanked by rubbed brick pilasters with enriched
capitals supporting a frieze with paterae and segmental
pediment; approached by steps.
1st and 2nd floors continue as 2-light bay window; 2nd floor
with yellow brick recessed panel aprons and pilasters
supporting an entablature surmounted by shaped console
pediments with keyed oculi to each elevation. Recessed left
hand bay with 2 windows to each floor, those to ground floor
having gauged brick heads with shaped keystones.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2688885262

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086763

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability