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CAMDEN
TQ2883SE PARK VILLAGE WEST
798-1/82/1282 Nos.1-8, 10-14 & 17-19 (Consecutive)
14/05/74 and attached railings
GV II*
Group of 16 related houses. 1832-7. Picturesque layout and
houses by John Nash, James Pennethorne and other assistants in
the Nash office. For the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and
Land Revenues. All in stucco.
EXTERIOR: Nos 1-7: c1832, probably by James Pennethorne.
Terrace of double fronted houses with 2 houses at each end
forming return wings (western wing to Albany Street). 2
storeys and basements. 3 windows each. Central doorways with
four-centred arch, part-glazed doors flanked by columns
supporting slated roofs forming porches and extending over
flanking canted bays with 5-light transom and mullion windows.
1st floor with central 2-light casement flanked by 3-light
casements. Cornice and blocking course. Tall stuccoed slab
chimney-stacks. Nos 1 & 2 with attached stucco walls having
trellis, grilled segmental-headed openings to light areas and
pillars. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Nos 3-7, attached cast-iron
railings on sleeper walls with piers.
No.8: c1834-7 by Charles Lee for Joseph Baxendale. Slated roof
with gables to 3 elevations. Asymmetrical villa. 2 storeys and
attic. 3 windows. Ground floor of projecting, gabled
right-hand 2 window bay, an open distyle-in-antis portico;
panelled door with radial patterned fanlight. Architraved
sashes. Bay at rear on cast-iron columns. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES:
cast-iron railings on dwarf wall.
No.10: c1834-7 by Nash office for HC Cholmondeley. Slated
hipped roof with projecting eaves. Villa with asymmetrical
front facade. 2 storeys and semi-basement. 3 windows. Prostyle
portico with panelled door and fanlight. To right, a
chimney-stack rising from ground floor level. Architraved,
recessed sashes. Right and left returns with canted bay
windows; 2-storey canted bay window at rear. SUBSIDIARY
FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings on sleeper wall with
gate piers.
No.11: c1834-7 by Nash office for A Duff. Restored c1975.
Slated hipped roof with bracketed eaves. Tall, stuccoed slab
chimney-stacks to right and left. 2 storeys and semi-basement.
Symmetrical facade of 3 windows. Entrance in channelled stucco
porch projection to left; round-arched doorway with radial
fanlight and panelled door. Ground floor casements with
cast-iron guards. 1st floor sashes with architraved heads
linked by impost bands. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached
cast-iron railings on sleeper wall.
No.12 (Tower House): c1834-7 by Nash office for James Johnson,
physician to William IV. Low slated pitched roofs with wide
bracketed eaves and stuccoed slab stacks with dentil
enrichment. Italianate design with 3 storey octagonal entrance
tower based on Tower of the Winds on angle of 2 and 3 storey
villa. Right-hand return with 3 window canted oriel rising
through 2 storeys. Pedimented entrance porch with panelled
door. Recessed sashes, those above porch blind. Casements with
cast-iron balcony to ground floor of oriel. SUBSIDIARY
FEATURES: attached low sleeper wall with columns carrying
urns; cast-iron railings.
No.12A: single storey pedimented building of later date, with
tetrastyle pilaster treatment. The former coach house of
No.12.
No.13: c1834-7 by Nash office. Slated roof with projecting
bracketed eaves and stuccoed slab chimney-stack.
Semi-detached, abutting at west end on No.14. 2 storeys and
basement. Double fronted with 3 windows. Rusticated pilaster
strips to ground floor, plain band at 1st floor level and
plain pilaster strips to 1st floor. 1st floor sill band.
Central entrance with architraved doorway having panelled door
and radial fanlight, flanked by tripartite windows with
enriched consoles on mullions. Recessed sashes to 1st floor.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas on
sleeper wall with piers, those flanking steps with wreaths and
surmounted by urns.
No.14: c1834-7 by Nash office. Built by J Johnson. Slated roof
with projecting bracketed (coupled) eaves and stuccoed slab
chimney-stack. Semi-detached with main facade to Albany
Street, abutting at rear on No.13. 3 storeys and basement.
Double fronted with 3 windows and 1 window right return.
Rusticated stucco. Round-arched doorway with panelled door,
radial fanlight and semicircular glass hood on cast-iron
brackets, flanked by 3-light canted bay windows with enriched
consoles on mullions supporting entablature which continues
above doorway. Upper floors with architraved sashes having
aprons and louvred shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached
cast-iron railings on sleeper wall with openings to light
areas.
No.17: c1834-7 by Nash office. L-shaped villa in Tudor-Gothic
style with steeply pitched slated roofs and gables with tall
polygonal stacks and finials. Two storeys, attic and basement,
with single storey porch and entrance hall in angle. 2
storeys, attic and basement. 1 window to each gabled facade.
Projecting porch with deep parapet and buttressed at angles.
Square-headed doorway with hood mould, panelled door and
fanlight. Both gabled facades with octagonal pinnacled
buttresses, finial at apex and stucco string. Left facade with
transomed and mullioned ground floor window, 2-light casement
on 1st floor and single light attic casement. Right facade
with 4-light transomed and mullioned canted bay window with
parapet; 1st floor with 2-light casement and single light
attic casement above. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron
railings to areas and on dwarf wall. Plaque on side of porch
commemorating founding of Church of England religious
sisterhood here in 1845.
No.18: c1832, probably by Pennethorne. Slated gabled roofs
with projecting bracketed eaves and tall rectangular chimney
pots set diagonally. Rectangular villa with projecting canted
bays, attached to No.19 at NW corner. 2 storeys, attic and
semi-basement. 2 windows. Square-headed doorway with hood
mould and panelled door. Above this, 3 light recessed casement
with hood mould; crenellated parapet. Projecting bay to right
with 5-light canted bay window rising through ground and 1st
floors with small slated roof having bracketed eaves. 2-light
attic window above. Right hand return with chimney-stack
rising from ground floor level. Projecting bay on right hand
return similar but bay window to ground floor only. SUBSIDIARY
FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas and on dwarf
wall.
No.19: c1832, probably by Pennethorne. Slated gabled roofs
with projecting bracketed eaves and tall rectangular chimney
pots set diagonally. Irregular villa with projecting bays,
attached to No.18 at SE corner. 2 storeys, attic and
semi-basement. 2 windows. Pointed arch doorway with panelled
door and patterned fanlight, above which a 3-light oriel
window with small roof; parapet. Projecting gabled bay to left
with 5-light canted bay window rising through ground and 1st
floors with small slated roof having bracketed eaves. 2-light
attic window above. Left hand return with chimney-stack rising
from ground floor level. Projecting bay on left return similar
but bay window to ground floor only. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES:
attached cast-iron railings to areas and on dwarf wall.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Park Village East and West (qv) were first
sketched out by John Nash in 1823 as developments of small
independent houses at the edge of Regent's Park. They had
great influence on the development of the Victorian
middle-class suburb. Both villages originally backed onto the
Cumberland Basin arm of the Regent's Canal, constructed
1813-16 to service Cumberland Market; filled in 1942-3. Park
Village West is listed Grade II* on account of its innovation
and completeness.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and
Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 153-155;
Saunders A: Regent's Park: -1969; Tyack G: Sir James
Pennethorne: -1993: 24-27).
Listing NGR: TQ2872583366
