The Freemasons Arms / Hampstead

Replacing the original C19th pub, this neo-Georgian building was constructed in the 1930s. Comprising two storeys, basement and attic with dormers partly shielded by parapet. A scroll-pedimented centre door has Y-tracery windows to either side, with the inner pair slightly bowed. A further two porched entrances have Regency-style canopies. The hipped roof and dormers use distinctive copper flashing. London Borough of Camden. 

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Railey Mews / NW5

Renovated Victorian mews houses off Leverton Road. A 'mews' in the UK is a small street of houses converted from stables with accommodation above. Kentish Town, London Borough of Camden.

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St Benet & All Saints / bellcote

Parish church designed in a mixture of styles by Cecil G Hare, 1928. Image shows detail of brick pediment and bellcote on south elevation. Grade II listed in 1999. Lupton Street, Kentish Town, London Borough of Camden. 

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The Pineapple / public house

Built c.1868, architect and builder unknown. Yellow brick with raised brick quoining at curved corner, channelled stucco to ground level. Modillion cornice at first floor and pineapple decorated keystones. The pub is grade II listed. Kentish Town, London Borough of Camden.

Keystone with eponymous motif 

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Falkland Road / NW5

Brightly-painted stucco facades on a terrace estimated to have been built mid-C19th. Most with projecting cornice mouldings, some with window crossheads. Stucco is rusticated at ground level. West section of Falkland Road, Kentish Town, London Borough of Camden. 

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Leverton St / from Leverton Pl

Showing part of a Grade II listed terrace of houses built c.1845. Note the surviving cast-iron anthemion (palmette) decoration to the first floor window sills. The listing says: "The terraces of Leverton Street form a charming group of small-scale, painted houses with distinctive decoration that is very unusual in London." Kentish Town, London Borough of Camden. 

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St Anne's Church / Highgate

Bath stone broach spire over belfry. Architect: T Bellamy, built 1853 by W Cubitt & Co. Church Grade II listed. 

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Early English Gothic revival style faced with sandstone. Highgate West Hill, London Borough of Camden.

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Elizabeth Taylor / by Pegasus

Stencil street art depicting the actress Dame Elizabeth Taylor. On a wall in Swains Lane, N6. It looks like this was derived from a movie still. London Borough of Camden. 

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The Magdala / NW3

Freehold recently bought for GBP2.1M but thought to be re-opening still as a pub in the New Year. It was outside the Magdala where Ruth Ellis shot her boyfriend in 1955 thereby becoming the last woman to be hanged in the UK. South Hill Park, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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Pillar box / NW3

Victorian pillar box (NW3 47) made by A Handyside & Co., with fluted frieze and 'VR' royal cipher. 'Post Office' legend at either side of aperture. Pillar boxes are painted with colour ref 538 BS381C Cherry. At South Hill Park opp 6 Parliament Hill, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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3 Squires Mount / Hampstead

One of a terrace of mid-C19th cottages with Grade II listing. Painted brick with slate roof and dog-tooth eaves cornice. According to this source, once owned by the actor Sir Richard Burton. London Borough of Camden. 

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43 Flask Walk / Hampstead

Single bay, but deep, terraced house built early C19th. Grade II listed. The street name derives from when gallon flasks of local spring water were sold at 3d each in C18th. Hampstead Village, London Borough of Camden. 

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Yellow, and black, and pale / Hampstead Heath

Leaf carpet on the Heath, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden.

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No.2 Pond / South Hill Park

Looking towards some of the houses on South Hill Park that overlook Hampstead Heath. These red-brick residences were built 1871-75 by Joseph Pickett. London Borough of Camden.

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No.2 Pond / Hampstead

Situated in the lower part of Hampstead Heath near Pryor's Field. In the London Borough of Camden although owned and managed by the City of London Corporation.

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Courteney Gate / Hove

Architects believed to be Coleridge, Jennings and Soimenow, developer Maurice Bloom, completed 1935. Large mansion block of 31 flats in a neo-Georgian & Deco style, facing King's Lawns. City of Brighton and Hove.

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Marrocco's / Hove

Restaurant with residential accommodation above, built 1934 to the design of restaurateur Alfonso Forte (1880-1958). Operated by the Forte family until 1969 when it was bought by the Marroccos. The 'winter garden' glazing was absent from the original build, which better suited the modernist style. The property is included in the Cliftonville Conservation Area. 8 King's Esplanade, City of Brighton & Hove.

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One King's Gardens / Hove

Sea-front mansion built by J.T.Chapell, c.1890. Basement and four storeys, attic with dormers and turret. First-floor balcony with wrought-iron balustrade and zinc canopy. Grade II listed, now divided into expensive apartments. City of Brighton & Hove. 

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The Windmill / Mitcham

Slate gable roof at rear and a neoclassical influenced frontage with flat roof. "Built in last half of C19th, although a pub has stood on this site since at least 1846. An unusual horizontal windmill stood nearby in the early C19th." [info source: LB Merton photo archive]. Commonside West, Mitcham, London Borough of Merton.

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The White Hart / Mitcham

Mitcham's earliest recorded inn, rebuilt in 1749-50 after serious fire damage. The central porch, with frieze and balustrade, is supported by four Tuscan columns. Stagecoaches used to start from a yard at the rear. Grade II listed. London Road, opposite Cricket Green, London Borough of Merton.

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9 Bramley Hill / B&W & looking up

1965, architect unknown. Overclad residential block of 12 floors and 44 flats. Looks like the roof parapet has also been raised to neatly integrate the roof services into a false floor. Bramley Hill, London Borough of Croydon.

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Unite Students / Stratford One

Architects: BDP, 2014. 28 storey student housing close to the Olympic Park and providing 951 study-bedrooms. London Borough of Newham.

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Clock Tower / Chrisp St 2014

Architect: Sir Frederick Gibberd (1908–1984), completed 1951. At Chrisp Street Market, part of the Lansbury Estate developed for the Festival of Britain. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Balfron Tower / interior

Architect: Ernő Goldfinger, 1967, Grade II listed, to be refurbished. Kitchen fitted and decorated as in the late '60s period. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Below, photographs of the three bedrooms.     

       

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Balfron Tower / view of Canary Wharf

View towards Canary Wharf from the balcony of a Balfron Tower flat. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Balfron Tower / interior

Architect: Ernő Goldfinger, 1967, Grade II listed, soon to be refurbished. Sitting room decorated in the late '60s period, complete with 'Boots the Chemists' J H Lynch art! Balfron Tower, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Access corridor serving three levels, by means of stairs up or down behind the doors of some of the flats, thereby releasing extra living space (and daylight aspect) on the two other levels. Balfron Tower, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Interior of skyway connecting the circulation tower to the access corridor. Locating the stairs, elevators and machinery in a separate tower provides acoustic isolation. Balfron Tower, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Idea Store Chrisp Street / 2014

Architects: Adjaye Associates, 2004. RIBA Award 2005. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Boe and Irony / 'Chihuahua'

Four-storey dog mural at Chrisp Street by Boe and Irony, 2014. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Branch Hill Lodge / NW3

On the site of an historic C18th mansion, largely rebuilt in 1901 and described by Pevsner as an "Edwardian monster". Converted and unsympathetically extended in 1965 by Camden Council to become an old people's home. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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Spedan Close / Branch Hill Estate

Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth of the London Borough of Camden's Architects' Department, 1974-6. Showing the fully-glazed living room. Grade II listed in 2010. 'Camden have arguably succeeded in building some of the highest quality council accommodation in the country' (AJ). Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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Showing the stepped arrangement of the Grade II-listed Modernist semi-detached residences. There are 3 rows extending down the slope of Branch Hill, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden.

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Showing gangway to roof terrace on top of the RC slab roof of the lower residence. Also, the metal spiral staircase. Concrete walls have vertical shutter marking, slabs were shuttered horizontally. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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Showing the car park vents at the top of the Branch Hill slope. Included in the Grade II listing of 2010. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden.

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The Gatehouse / Branch Hill Lodge

Architect believed to be Samuel Sanders Teulon, 1868, in a Gothic-revival style with brick patterning and polychromy. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden.

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Hampstead Heath / nr Spaniard's Rd

London Borough of Camden. 

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Elm Row sign / NW3

Ceramic tile street sign flush on curved corner wall, with Victorian wall box beneath. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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123 Heath Street / NW3

Early C19th terraced house of 1 bay and 3 storeys plus attic. The arch of the entrance can just be seen to right at No. 125. A canopied verandah on cast-iron columns contributes to a graceful, but narrow, facade. Grade II listed. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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