Number 8 And Garden Walls And Gate Piers

CAMDEN

TQ2685SE LYNDHURST GARDENS 798-1/38/1825 (South side) 01/07/98 No.8 and garden walls and gate piers

GV II

Formerly known as: Saint Elmo LYNDHURST GARDENS. Detached house. c1886. By Harry B Measures. For William Willett and Son, builder-developers. Red and grey-blue bricks with rubbed brick ornaments and string course, timber windows and tiled roof. 3 full storeys. Front an asymmetrical composition in Queen Anne style with recessed entrance porch in centre under bracketed wooden hood with fanlight over under a small pediment. To left, broad canted single-storey bay window with balustrade below a high straight Queen Anne gable rising to an attic storey and terminating with a ball finial; to right, narrower canted bay window rising through two storeys below another straight Queen Anne gable terminating in a pediment. Tall chimneys on flanks. High, deeply hipped roof. Windows partly casements, partly sashes, with small panes in upper portions (some changed). INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: dwarf garden wall in front with plinth, buttresses and polygonal gate piers topped by terracotta finials. The Willett houses in Lyndhurst Gardens form a compact and distinguished group.

Listing NGR: TQ2688285079