Camden Arts Centre And Attached Piers And Wall

CAMDEN

TQ2685SW ARKWRIGHT ROAD 798-1/37/57 (North side) 08/06/90 Camden Arts Centre and attached piers and wall

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Includes: Camden Arts Centre and attached piers and wall FINCHLEY ROAD. Library, now an arts centre. 1897. By Arnold S Tayler. Extended 1909 and 1926. Red brick, stone dressings, slate roofs. Corner site; Arkwright Road elevation basically symmetrical. 2 outer gabled wings set forward, 3 inner gableted bays. EXTERIOR: 2 and 2 1/2 storeys. To left; 4-light oriel window over 3 single lights beneath embattled parapet. Louvred light to gable. Brick sill and impost bands. Polygonal belfry on ridge, a solid base surmounted by ouvres, beneath ogival cap with finial. Main block; the bays subdivided between the windows by stepped stone-dressed buttresses. To left and right, mullion and transom windows of 2 x 3 lights, beneath gablet, and flanked by similar 2 x 2 light windows. Central entrance through buttressed porch set forward. Stone parapet with blind arcade, over Tudor-style arched stone moulded entrance. Above, 2-light window beneath gablet. Double flight of stone steps between brick retaining wall with moulded stone coping. Ground floor windows, following rhythm of upper storey but variously mullion and transom and casements. Similar dressings. Right hand wing; pair of stone niches beneath canopies at 1st floor level. Louvred gable light. 3 ground floor openings. Square belfry set back on ridge. Finchley Road elevation; 2 storeys 5 bays, the 2nd to 4th set forward on square bays, and beneath gablets. 1st floor stone mullion and transom windows, alternately 2 x 2 and 2 x 3 lights, linked by continuous flush stone band at transom level. Ground floor similar with timber casements to 2nd to 4th bays. To left, former entrance with elliptical head beneath 4-light overlight with small leaded panes and beneath elliptical parapet. INTERIOR: principal rooms, now studios, with canted ribbed ceilings with original ventilation grilles. Room to right of entrance has iron spiral staircase to upper level. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to Arkwright Road elevation, pair of gate piers of banded brickwork and stone, with stone coping and having iron overthrow. Low parapet wall links similar piers, some with ball finials, and 2 with overthrow and leading to secondary entrance.

CAMDEN

TQ2685SW FINCHLEY ROAD 798-1/37/57 Camden Arts Centre and attached 08/06/90 piers and wall

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Listing NGR: TQ2604485150