Royal Free Hospital / NW3

Architects: Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks, Forestier-Walker and Bor, completed 1974 and said to be the first hospital design to use CAD. The main 16-storey building has a cruciform plan and the image is looking up at the intersection of the west and south arms. Pond Street, London Borough of Camden.

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The George / Belsize Park

On this site since 1827, although reconstructed and extended over the period, now in a half-timbered mock Tudor style. Records show an inn called The Great Tree being close-by in 1666, which was renamed The George in 1715. Haverstock Hill, London Borough of Camden. 

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St Stephen's Rosslyn Hill / tower and wheel window

Architect: S.S.Teulon, c.1871, in a French Gothic style using purple brick and Kentish ragstone. 

 "...a brooding and bulgy central tower made into a macabre Gothic dirge..." (Ian Nairn).

Winner of an English Heritage Angels Award in 2011 for repair and rescue of heritage at risk. Grade I listed. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden.

Exterior detail of the west facing wheel window with plate tracery.

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The Garden House / gateway

Gated archway providing the only access to The Garden House, a 1950s brick built dwelling situated by the Vale of Health pond. A decade of planning applications to upgrade the residence have generated much opposition, at one stage reaching the High Court. Vale of Health, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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Maryon Hall / house sign

Sign to the Grade II listed house known as Maryon Hall, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden.

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Henlys / ghost sign

Henlys - England's Leading Rover Distributors. The Henly Group was founded in 1947 and closed in 2005. Camden High Street, London Borough of Camden.

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Monro House / cupola

Designed by Edward Ellis in 1869, originally as The Royal Sailors' Daughters' Home. Now converted to residential apartments for older persons, though much of the original exterior decoration remains, including this cupola belfry. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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Hampstead Heath / Viaduct Bridge

Architect: Joseph Gwilt, c.1845, commissioned by the landowner in preparation for a scheme to build a housing estate on the Heath, which was then denied permission. Red brick Roman Classical design of 5 main arches with rusticated stone flanking piers. The original balustrade has been replaced by metal railings. Grade II listed. Hampstead Heath, London Borough of Camden.

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Viaduct Bridge / Hampstead

Architect: Joseph Gwilt, c.1845, commissioned by the landowner in preparation for a scheme to build a housing estate on the Heath, which was denied permission. Red brick Roman Classical design of 5 main arches with rusticated stone flanking piers. The original balustrade has been replaced by metal railings (see below). Grade II listed. Hampstead Heath, London Borough of Camden. 

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Postmarked May 1905, showing what is now known as Viaduct Bridge (architect: Joseph Gwilt, c.1845). Hampstead Heath, London Borough of Camden.

The Old White Bear / sign

Another historic Hampstead pub that has fended off conversion to residential; said to be re-opening soon. Rrrrrresult growls the bear. Well Road, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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Christ Church Hampstead / spire

Architect: Samuel Dawkes, 1852, in a revival of the Early English Gothic style. Kentish ragstone coursed rubble and Portland stone dressings. Image shows buttressing, east window tracery, tower pinnacles and the octagonal spire with lucarnes. Grade II listed. Hampstead Square, London Borough of Camden. 

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View from Christchurch Hill / NW3

Including the spire of Christ Church Hampstead (architect: Samuel Daukes, 1852), London Borough of Camden. 

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Burgh House / NW3

Built for Henry and Hannah Sewell, c.1704, making the original parts of the house of the Queen Anne (Stuart) era; enlarged to rear in 1720. Grade I listed and now owned by a charitable trust. Home to the Burgh House & Hampstead Museum and an exhibition and function centre. New End Square, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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The Wells & Campden Baths & Wash Houses / 1888

Architect: Henry S Legg, 1888. Red brick construction with Dutch gable and carved stone name plaque across breadth of the building. Not a swimming baths, but where people could wash themselves in a hot bathtub, such facilities in ordinary houses then being rather limited, especially for the poor. This building also had large sinks in which to do laundry, plus drying cabinets. It was converted to residential units in 1985. Grade II listed. Flask Walk, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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New Campden Court / NW3

1970s local authority terraced housing in red brick, concrete, glass and metal. Two-storey with steps to raised entrances, plus semi-basement flats. Holly Bush Vale, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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St John-at-Hampstead / steeple

Architect: John Sanderson 1745-47, castellated tower rebuilt 1759, copper spire added 1784. In 1874 there was a plan to demolish this tower which was opposed by a petition whose names included William Butterfield, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Dante Rossetti, Sir George Gilbert Scott and others of note. This in turn led to the establishment of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Hampstead's Parish Church is Grade I listed. London Borough of Camden. 

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Hampstead Station / (tube)

Architect: Leslie Green (1875-1908), designed in the Edwardian Baroque style and opened 1907. Steel frame with brick cladding, faced with ox-blood red faience tiles. This station has the deepest lift shaft on the Underground at 55m. The rails run 76m beneath Hampstead Heath. This was to be London Transport's emergency HQ in the event of nuclear attack during the Cold War. London Borough of Camden. 

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66 Frognal / B&W

Architects: Colin Lucas with Amyas Connell and Basil Ward, 1938. Modernist residence, reinforced concrete frame on concrete piloti. Grade II* listed. Refurbished early C21st by Avanti Architects (RIBA Conservation Award 2005). Corner of Frognal and Frognal Way, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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66 Frognal / NW3

Architects: Colin Lucas with Amyas Connell and Basil Ward, 1938. Modernist residence, reinforced concrete frame on concrete piloti. Grade II* listed. Refurbished early C21st by Avanti Architects (RIBA Conservation Award 2005). Corner of Frognal and Frognal Way, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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12 Church Row / NW3

Circa 1728, built by R Hughes. Three stories, attic and semi-basement, of yellow stock brick with red-brick dressings. Giant order pilasters extending from 1st floor to parapet. Grade II listed in 1950. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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The Wells Tavern / NW3

Circa 1849 Georgian-style public house of three storeys plus basement on corner plot. Venetian windows on ground floor aside matching round-arched doorway with fan-light. Grade II listed. The late Ian Nairn described Hampstead's pubs as "like a private society whose performance is not worth the entrance fee", but I understand this one was rescued from the dread developers of luxury flats so it's a result! London Borough of Camden. 

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20 Frognal Way / NW3

Architects believed to have been Tomkins Hamer & Ley with R J Page, commissioned by Dame Gracie Fields, completed 1934. Not to be confused with another Fields' residence, 'Tower', that was on the Bishops Avenue. This one, aka 'Blue Tiles', is on Frognal Way, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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To New End / direction sign

Ceramic tile direction sign chased into brick wall, with metal railings above. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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The Clock Tower / NW3

Designed by George Vulliamy, 1873, housing the local fire station until 1915. The campanile-style tower was originally taller, with a viewing platform for fire watchmen and topped by a pyramidal roof. Now apartments and commercial, grade II listed. Corner of Holly Hill and Heath Street, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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Parliament Hill / Autumn vista

Early autumn on Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath, London Borough of Camden. 

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15 Downshire Hill / NW3

Early C19th end-of-terrace villa, of three storeys with two-storey projecting bay on left. Iron gate, railings and window guard included in a Grade II listing. Hipped slate roof and cream stucco facade. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden. 

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Tottenham Hale / Waiting Room #2

(From the archives of 2012)

Architects: Will Alsop, John Lyall & Jan Störmer, 1991. Station waiting-room looking like a slightly up-market Nissen hut, but curiously eye-catching! Nissen huts were born out of the two World Wars in the UK and there remains an echo of conflict and deprivation about present-day London commuting. Steel and aluminium. London Borough of Haringey.

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Blizard Building / skyway

(From the archives of 2011)

Arch. Will Alsop Design Ltd., 2005. The Blizard Building houses cell and molecular science research staff and students working at Queen Mary & Westfield College. Awards included an RIBA Education London Award for 2006. The building is named after Sir William Blizard, the founder of the London Hospital Medical College in 1785. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Peckham Library / 1

(From the archives of 2011)

Designed by Will Alsop & Jan Störmer, 1999. This copper-clad, top-heavy, spindly-stilted building won the RIBA Stirling Prize, the UK's most prestigious architecture award, for the year 2000. London Borough of Southwark.

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BedZED / Hackbridge

(From the archives of 2012) 

Architects: ZEDFactory (Bill Dunster), 2002. Shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2003. Beddington Zero Energy Development is the UK’s largest mixed use, carbon-neutral development. In Hackbridge, London Borough of Sutton

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Thamesmead / 3 images

(From the archives of 2011 & 2012)

Greater London Council Departments of Architecture & Planning, circa 1968. London Borough of Bexley.

Some of the individual architecture is outstanding; but 45 years on, it's easy to be wise after the event about the planning mistakes.

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St John's / Downshire Hill

Grade I listed church completed 1823, designed in a Classically-inspired style by (possibly) C R Cockerell, or its builder William Woods. There was a GBP 1M restoration in 2003-4. Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden.

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27 & 28 Downshire Hill / Hampstead

Matching pair of terraced houses built c.1826 of yellow stock brick with slate roof and tall terracotta chimney pots. Each house is only one bay wide, but with three storeys and basement. The houses' Grade II listing includes the decorative iron window guards and front railings. London Borough of Camden.

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