Maria Montessori Training Organisation

TQ2685SE 798-1/38/1091

CAMDEN LYNDHURST GARDENS (East side) No.26 Maria Montessori Training Organisation

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 at angles; terracotta and rubbed brick enrichment. Tiled hipped roof with dormers, gable to right hand bay and tall brick slab chimney-stacks with panelling and cornices. Asymmetrical design. EXTERIOR: 3 and 2 storeys, attics and semi-basement. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows. All 1st floor sashes with glazing bars to top halves only; ground floor casements with stained glass top lights. Right hand projecting gabled bay with canted bay of casements and sashes rising from semi-basement through 1st floor; ground floor with gauged brick heads, shaped keystone and bracketed continuous sill; 1st floor has enriched terracotta frieze, continuing across the facade, and balustrade to the 2nd floor window of tripartite sashes, with gauged brick heads and keystone, flanked by pilasters at angles supporting gable. Gable with bands of red brickwork with projecting stepped tiles, keyed oculus and terracotta dragon finial. Slightly projecting central entrance bay with portico of rubbed brick half-columns supporting an enriched frieze and pediment; round-arched entrance with part-glazed panelled door having sidelights and radial patterned fanlight, approached by steps with curved balustrade. 1st floor, paired sashes with frieze and balustrade above. Similar arrangement to 1st floor left hand recessed bay. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2687685299