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Lyndhurst House Preparatory School

A Grade II Listed Building in Hampstead Town, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5522 / 51°33'7"N

Longitude: -0.1713 / 0°10'16"W

OS Eastings: 526882

OS Northings: 185282

OS Grid: TQ268852

Mapcode National: GBR D0.X1Y

Mapcode Global: VHGQR.Z78Y

Plus Code: 9C3XHR2H+VF

Entry Name: Lyndhurst House Preparatory School

Listing Date: 11 January 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379397

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478777

ID on this website: 101379397

Location: Hampstead, 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: All Hallows Hampstead

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


TQ2685SE
798-1/38/1090

CAMDEN
LYNDHURST GARDENS
(East side)
No.24
Lyndhurst House Preparatory School

GV
II

Detached house now in use as a school. 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 angles. Tiled hipped and gabled
roofs with dormers, tall elaborately patterned and shaped
brick chimney-stacks and brick modillion eaves cornice.
Asymmetrical design.
EXTERIOR: 3 and 2 storeys, attics and semi-basement. Irregular
fenestration of 3 windows. Projecting gabled right hand bay
with 4-light canted bay window, having continuous bracketed
ground floor sill and small stained glass top lights, from
semi-basement through the 1st floor terminating in a large
rectangular 2nd floor bay, tile-hung with a 3-light window
(glazing bars to top lights) and small attic window in timber
framed gable with moulded bargeboard. Left hand entrance bay
has projecting brick gabled portico with strip of 4 small
lights above shaped arch entrance approached by steps with
curved balustrades; panelled part-glazed door with radial
patterned fanlight and sidelights. To left, transom and
mullion window with stained glass. 1st floor has 2 windows
with C20 glazing flanking the base of a central chimney-stack,
with rubbed brick cartouche and 3 recessed panels, which rises
up through the centre of a tile-hung gable with small flanking
windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2688285282

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