Lyndhurst House Preparatory School

TQ2685SE 798-1/38/1090

CAMDEN LYNDHURST GARDENS (East side) No.24 Lyndhurst House Preparatory School

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 to angles. Tiled hipped and gabled roofs with dormers, tall elaborately patterned and shaped brick chimney-stacks and brick modillion eaves cornice. Asymmetrical design. EXTERIOR: 3 and 2 storeys, attics and semi-basement. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows. Projecting gabled right hand bay with 4-light canted bay window, having continuous bracketed ground floor sill and small stained glass top lights, from semi-basement through the 1st floor terminating in a large rectangular 2nd floor bay, tile-hung with a 3-light window (glazing bars to top lights) and small attic window in timber framed gable with moulded bargeboard. Left hand entrance bay has projecting brick gabled portico with strip of 4 small lights above shaped arch entrance approached by steps with curved balustrades; panelled part-glazed door with radial patterned fanlight and sidelights. To left, transom and mullion window with stained glass. 1st floor has 2 windows with C20 glazing flanking the base of a central chimney-stack, with rubbed brick cartouche and 3 recessed panels, which rises up through the centre of a tile-hung gable with small flanking windows. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2688285282