Moreton House, Hampstead

Moreton House is a detached house on Holly Walk in Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden. It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE) since December 1969.[1]

It was designed by the architect Thomas Garner for F.E. Sidney, an art historian and collector in 1894 and completed in 1896.[2][1] The house is set over three storeys with distinctive tall chimney stacks with its architectural style described as "Cotswold vernacular Jacobean" by the NHLE listing and as a 'Jacobean manor house' by Nikolaus Pevsner. The central bay of the house projects forward to form a porch with a round arched entrance, a sculptured heraldic tablet is sited above the porch. A sculpture of the Virgin and child sits as an aedicule above the window on the first floor.[1] '1896' is inscribed on the head of the drainpipes of the house.[3]

The house originally had extensive terraced gardens, these were subsequently been built on in the 20th century. The London: North edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides described the houses built on the former grounds of Moreton House as "mediocre".[4]

The house was featured in House and Garden magazine in 1905.[5]

References
  1. Historic England, "Moreton House (1379119)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 27 August 2020
  2. "A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington. British History Online". Victoria County History. 1989. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  3. Alastair Service (1989). Victorian and Edwardian Hampstead: Two Walks Around Its Streets and Buildings. Historical Publications. pp. 81–82.
  4. Bridget Cherry; Nikolaus Pevsner (March 1998). London: North. Yale University Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-300-09653-8.
  5. House & Garden. Condé Nast Publications. 1905. p. 67.

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