Number 24 and Walls and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Semi-detached house. 4 related planning applications.
Number 24 and Walls and Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-gutter-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- Semi-detached house
- Address
- Number 24 and Walls and Gate Piers, Belsize Crescent, NW3 5QU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 267 850
- Coordinates
- 51.54986, -0.17266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a semi-detached house, dating from around 1886, designed by Harry B Measures for William Willett and Son, a builder-developer. The house is constructed of red and blue-grey bricks with rubbed brick dressings and string courses, featuring timber windows and a tiled roof.
The exterior is three storeys high, including a semi-basement, with dormers in the roof. Its design is an asymmetrical composition in the Queen Anne style, attached to a stucco terrace at numbers 6-22 (even) Belsize Crescent. Steps lead to a recessed porch with an ogee head and fanlights, above which are two windows. To the right is a projecting bay window with canted sides rising through three storeys, topped by a shaped Queen Anne gable with pilasters terminating in volutes. An elaborate tall chimney is on the northern flank. The roof is steeply hipped, cut back into a gablet below the ridge. The windows are a mix of sashes and casements, with smaller panes in the upper portions.
The interior retains the original hall and staircase, which are well preserved.
The front has a dwarf garden wall with a plinth, buttresses, and polygonal piers topped by terracotta finials.
It is believed to be the first Queen Anne house built by the Willetts in Hampstead, as part of the 'Belsize Court' development, and is attached to an earlier mid-Victorian stucco terrace. It forms part of the group of Willett houses in Lyndhurst Gardens.
Local climate
Number 24 and Walls and Gate Piers sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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