57, Eton Avenue

CAMDEN

TQ2684SE ETON AVENUE 798-1/61/404 (South side) No.57

GV II

Detached house. c1889. By Harry Measures; built by William Willett & Son. Red brick ground floor; upper floors yellow brick with red brick dressings and pilasters at angles; terracotta enrichment. Tiled hipped and gabled roofs with dormer, tall brick chimney-stacks and terracotta bracketed eaves cornice. Asymmetrical design. EXTERIOR: 3 and 2 storeys and attics. All windows with small stained glass top lights. Narrow right hand bay with an unusual almost circular oriel window having a conical tiled roof surmounted by a heraldic beast supporting a shield. Gabled bay has a 4-light canted bay window, ground floor with continuous bracketed sill and 1st floor apron of chequered terracotta rosettes, rising from the semi-basement through the 1st floor which has a terracotta bracketed cornice, which continues across the facade, supporting a terracotta parapet with paired roundels set in rectangular recesses. Behind this, 2nd floor windows with gauged brick flat arches. Gable with terracotta coped eaves, small window and finial. Left hand entrance bay has projecting brick portico, with terracotta detailing and coping to gable and a shaped entrance with 4-light window above; part-glazed panelled door, with side-lights and overlight, approached by steps with curved balustrade. To left, a stained glass transom and mullion window. 1st floor has 2 windows flanking the base of a central chimney-stack, with a terracotta cartouche, 3 recessed panels and further panelling, which rises up through the centre of the gable with flanking oculi. On left hand return, filling angle between a projecting bay at 1st floor level, an unusual glazed conservatory with curved lean-to roof and oriel windows all having small patterned panes. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2695884409