Friends Meeting House

CAMDEN

TQ2686SW HEATH STREET 798-1/16/820 (East side) No.120 Friends Meeting House

GV II

Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting House. 1907. By Frederick Rowntree. Stucco with brick ground floor to left hand return. Tiled gabled roof with tall buttressed chimney-stack on return. Arts and Crafts Free Style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. Gabled Heath Street facade with semicircular timber porch of distyle-in-antis columns, their pedestals on the 2nd of 3 stone steps, supporting a deep entablature with copper half-dome; panelled doors, part-glazed with small panes, and brass handles. To right, a transom and mullion window with glazing bars. Similarly detailed Venetian style window at 1st floor level. Left hand return to Hampstead Square with grilled semi-basement windows; left hand gabled bay with 3 2-light square-headed casements in shallow segmental-arched recesses with louvred shutters and a keyed oculus in the apex, all with small panes; right hand bay with a single and a 3-light window and a box dormer breaking through over-hanging eaves, all with glazing bars. INTERIOR: plain with Arts and Crafts detailing. A small lobby leads into a hall with a motif of shallow arches around the walls. 1st floor library with fireplace. HISTORICAL NOTE: Frederick Rowntree was an architect member of the famous Quaker chocolate manufacturing family from Yorkshire, who designed a series of Friends' Meeting Houses around the country.

Listing NGR: TQ2639686084