Description

CAMDEN

TQ2785NW SOUTH END ROAD
798-1/28/1445 (West side)
14/05/74 Nos.71 AND 73
Russell House (No.71) and Leighton
House (No.73)

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses. Early C19, No.71 with 1890
verandah extension by CFA Voysey. Stucco with slate roofs
having tall brick chimney-stacks. 3 storeys and basements. 2
windows each and 3 window returns. Outer bays projecting and
gabled with architraving to appear as broken pediments.
Entrances on returns: No.71 elliptical arched entrance in
verandah extension having casements with small panes; No.73,
square-headed doorway in arched recess with cornice. Recessed
sashes to central bays, No.73 camber arched; ground and 1st
floor out bays, casements with margin glazing, 1st floor with
cast-iron balconies; 2nd floor outerbays have round arched
windows with margin glazing and radial fanlight heads.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Voysey's verandah extension said by Pevsner
to be his earliest surviving work.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: London 2, Except the
Cities of London & Westminster: London: -1952: 197).

Listing NGR: TQ2717985741

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086147

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)