Chestnut Lodge and Squires Mount is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. Residence. 6 related planning applications.
Chestnut Lodge and Squires Mount
- WRENN ID
- moated-spandrel-ridge
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1950
- Type
- Residence
- Address
- Chestnut Lodge and Squires Mount, NW3 1EG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 266 861
- Coordinates
- 51.56044, -0.17475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Lodge and Squires Mount are a terrace of originally four houses, now two residences, dating to circa 1714, with alterations made later, and a circa 1900 Neo-Georgian addition by Horace Field to Chestnut Lodge. The building is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and horizontal floor bands, featuring plain pilaster strips between the easternmost houses. The roof is tiled and slated, with dormers.
The building is three storeys high, with attics and basements, and has an eleven-window range (originally 2:3:4:2) to the main (south) front. Squires Mount, the second house from the east end, retains its original doorway, featuring a wooden architraved doorcase with vermiculated block dressings, a keystone, a pulvinated frieze, and a dentil cornice. The remaining entrances have later 19th-century Neo-Georgian details. A two-storey extension in brick at the west end of the range accommodates the entrance to Chestnut Lodge. Windows are slightly recessed sashes with exposed boxing, set within gauged red brick flat arches. The eastern end of Squires Mount incorporates a later circa 1900 ground-floor loggia; it is characterised by pilasters flanking French windows, and a balustraded parapet. The return side has canted bay windows flanking a French door at ground floor, and a similar window to the first floor on the left. Parapets are present.
The interior was noted to retain some panelling, though it has not been inspected. Original lead rainwater heads and pipes are visible on the south front.
Historically, the building was the home of Edwin Field, a law reformer, in the late 19th century, and it was formerly Mrs Holt's School for Young Ladies.
Local climate
Chestnut Lodge and Squires Mount sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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