HAMPSTEAD TOWN HALL

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Reference WMO/112500

Address:

Town Hall

Haverstock Hill

Hampstead

London

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Other structure/building
Materials:
  • Brick Brick
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
About the memorial: The building is itself a war memorial and is home to a number of other war memorials including Boer War memorial which consists of Brass panels with repousse lettering on a wooden frame. Town hall, now council offices. 1877-8. By HE Kendall and Frederick Mew. Red brick, rusticated at ground floor level, with stone dressings. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: symmetrical design. Central stone-cased entrance with panelled pilasters supporting mask console brackets to pediment with carved, foliated cartouche and acroterion; double part-glazed panelled doors, with 2 rectangular overlights and a further overlight, approached by wide steps with low stone balustrades having elaborately enriched cast-iron lampstandards with ladder bars and Windsor lanterns. To each side of the entrance, 3 stone architraved sashes with scrolled pediments incorporating architraved oculi. Dentil cornice at 1st floor level below a blind balustrade with panels of carved enrichment. 3 tall round-arched central windows flanked by brick pilasters linked by impost bands; pilasters marking bays and angles continue in fluted stone to support an entablature with 'Town Hall' inscribed on the frieze and modillion cornice crowned by a pediment with oculus above central bay and parapet above outer bays. Returns without entrances but in similar style and having friezes inscribed 'Erected AD 1877'. INTERIOR: with many original details including cornices, fireplaces, clocks and radiators. Top-lit entrance hall with patterned tile floor and Imperial stair with elaborate cast-iron balusters and newels having brass lamp-holders. At 1st landing, a round-arched mirror in marble surround with clock in pediment. In right hand stair well, a marble 1st World War Memorial with columns supporting an entablature surmounted by a coat of arms. Good marble fireplace in porter's booth. In rear corridor a Boer War memorial formed of brass panels. First-floor assembly hall with stage has heavy cornice with console brackets dropping down over frieze. Secondary stair with cast-iron balustrade. Included as a fine early example of a London vestry hall. c Historic England Listing entry
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