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Modern Houses In Camden

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Image Address Architect Date Notes References

WC1

30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD Jacob Blacker Architects 1982

9 Doughty Mews, WC1N 2PG Stephen Greenberg & Dean Hawkes

10-11 Doughty Mews, WC1N 2PG Piers Ford Automated glass roof.

5 Northington Street, WC1N 2JE Bill Greensmith Architects 2005

85 Judd Street, WC1H 9NE End of terrace house with roof garden. Refurbished by Fred Manson with Project Orange, 2002.

German Lutheran Church, 10 Sandwich Street, WC1H 9PL Maguire & Murray Hostel over a church.

215 Sidmouth Street, WC1

Clerkenwell (EC1)

Gazzano House, Farringdon Road, EC1 Amin Taha Architects 2004 Block of flats with weathering steel cladding.

Finsbury Health Centre, 17 Pine Street, EC1R 0JH Tecton 1938

Janet Street-Porter house, 44 Britton St, EC1M 5NA CZWG 1987 Postmodern. Pevsner p627.

Architects' Offices, 24 Britton St, EC1M 5UA YRM 1976 Architects' own office. Pevsner p627.

125 Golden Lane, EC1Y 0TJ Jo Hagan of USE Architects 2000 An extraordinarily tall and thin house. 3.5m wide.

35 Clerkenwell Close, EC1R 0AU David Adjaye 2004 Converted, extended small industrial building. Called 'Fog House' by the architect.

124 St John Street, EC1

2 Leo Yard, EC1 Behind 124 St John Street.

Primrose Hill (NW1)

2 Regal Lane, NW1 7TH John Winter 1961 Self-built for the architects own occupation. Extended in 1997. H&GM p28. Pevsner p387.

10 and 11 Regal Lane, NW1 7TH John Winter 1963 Two mews houses with roof terraces. Pevsner refers to them as Numbers 7 and 9. (p387)

45 Kingstown St, NW1 Springett Mackay Architecture 2003 Designed around a retractable central roof. Quite monolithic compared to its neighbours.

47 Kingstown Street, NW1 8JP Stout and Litchfield The mass is broken down into smaller volumes in the manner typical of the architects. Pevsner p387.

53 Kingstown St NW1 Improved following a refurbishment of c2003.

55 Kingstown Street, NW1 8JP A mews house.

10 Albert Terrace Mews, NW1 7TA Unusual house engulfed by planting.

Flats, 10 Regents Park Road, NW1 7TX Erno Goldfinger 1956 Listed Building. Original construction cost Ł25,000. H&GS p84; NHGB p104; EH p522; Pevsner p387; IoE No.477844.

Flats, 41 Gloucester Avenue, NW1 7BA James Stirling 1968 Functional but ugly and uncompromising block of flats by a famous architect. Pevsner p387.

Camden Town (NW1)

Kent House, Ferdinand Street, NW1 8ET Connell, Ward and Lucas 1936 Two blocks of early modern flats with roof terraces. Flats 1 to 9 in the street block, and 10 - 16 in the rear block. Quite a few changes have been made at ground level and a lift has been added to the front block.Listed. Pevsner p396; IoE no.477273.

1a to 1e Oval Road NW1 7EA Ted Levy, Benjamin and Partners 1963 A row of houses squeezed into a thin tapering space beside the railway. Roof terraces make up for lack of gardens.

Latitude House, Oval Road, NW1 7EU Allford Hall Monaghan Morris 2005 Block of twelve flats. (Architecture Today, No 168).

The Glass Building, Arlington Road, NW1 7HY CZWG Imaginative block of flats built next door to a massive doss-house.

Grand Union Walk, Kentish Town Road, NW1 9LP Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners 1990 Part of the Sainsbury's Development on Camden Road. A terrace of twelve gardenless, single-aspect houses facing north over the canal. Futuristic Styling. AR Oct 89 p36; Pevsner p.389; TQ 28 SE 406

25 & 27 Prowse Place, NW1 9PN Renton Welch Partnership The plain front facades conceal glassy houses stepping down to the rear.

42 & 44 Rochester Place, NW1 9JX David Wild 1985 & 1989 44 is a simple, powerful design, self-built for the architect's own occupation. 42 was for his neighbour who also wanted one. Pevsner p.400; NMR:TQ 28 SE 405

Camden: Camden Mews Area (NW1 9--)

2 Camden Mews, NW1 9DB Tom Kay 1989 An extension to a ground floor flat. Pevsner p391.

66 Camden Square, NW1 9XD Peter Bell 1985 An attractive timber and glass house. Pevsner p391.

4 Camden Mews, NW1 Peter Bell Alterations making it similar in style to its neighbour, 66 Camden Square.

16 Murray Street, NW1 9RF Edward Cullinan Architects 1983 Pevsner p391.

House at rear of 23 Camden Mews, NW1 Sheila Bull White blockwork house of unusual neatness and precision.

31,31a & 33 Camden Mews, NW1 9BY

79 Camden Mews, NW1 9BU 2002

54 Camden Mews, NW1 9BX

81 & 83 Camden Mews, NW1 9BU Stephen Greenberg and Dean Hawkes

60 Camden Mews, NW1 9BX Johnny Winter

62 Camden Mews, NW1 9BX Edward Cullinan 1963 Self-built by and for the architect. Faces towards the sun instead of towards the street. An exemplar of how to build low rise/high density. Not listed - but surely will be, along with the nearby Kawecki house. Pevsner p391.

64 Camden Mews, NW1 9BX

Cliff Road Studios, 5 Cliff Road, NW1 9AN Georgie Wolton 1968 Six flats. Pevsner p390.

Cliff Road Studios, 7 Cliff Road, NW1 9AN Georgie Wolton 1971 The sequel. Pevsner p390.

Camden: Murray Mews (NW1 9--)

43 Murray Mews, NW1 9RH John Townsend (of Rock Townsend) 1977 Built for the architect. The garden elevation is sloping glass and there is a small slope to the top of the road facade. 40 Douglas Rd, N1 and 25 & 27 Prowse Place, NW1 have similar cross-sections. Pevsner p391.

34 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ

32 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ Hal Currey (of ACQ) 2002

30 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ Jeff Kahane 1992 Gets a mention in Pevsner (p391), but surely no.28 is the more deserving?

28 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ Well-composed mews house.

22 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ Tom Kay 1972 Pevsner p391.

20 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ Richard Gibson 1966 The first of a series of distinctive brick mews houses built by and for architects in this street. The house is composed around a central double-height space. JP p9. Pevsner p391.

15,17 & 19 Murray Mews, NW1 9RH Team 4 1967 Team 4 included Richard & Su Rogers and Norman & Wendy Foster and Georgie Wolton. JP p131. Pevsner p391.

1a Cobham Mews, Agar Grove, NW1 9SB David Chipperfield Architects 1990 Renowned architects' own offices. Situated off Agar Grove. Pevsner p392.

Kentish Town (NW5)

Four houses in Crown Place, NW5 2JR Crawford Partnership Four hidden mews houses. Each is arranged compactly around a small courtyard. Off the west side of Kentish Town Road.

1-15 Newbury Mews, NW5 3HP Brooks Murray Architects 2004 Mews Development

Flats, Hampstead Gates, 38 Ryland Road, NW5 3EH 2005 Small tower of flats in grounds of converted school building.

15 Torriano Cottages, NW5 2TA Philip Pank (of Pank Goss Associates) 1967 Architect's own house. ABT p114. Pevsner p400.

5 Caversham Road, NW5 2DT Colquhoun and Miller 1979 Infill of two flats. Pevsner p400.

6-10 Gaisford Street, NW5 2ED Colquhoun and Miller 1979 Flats. Pevsner p400.

10-14 Leighton Crescent, NW5 2QY Edward Cullinan Architects 1980 Block of 16 flats. Pevsner p401.

12 Bartholomew Villas, NW5 2LL Edward Cullinan 1964 Kawecki House. Careful and clear consideration of aspect and enclosure have lead to a design that is strong but dissonant to its neighbours. Altered at ground floor. Pevsner p400.

24A York Rise, NW5 1SR Joanna van Heyningen & Birkin Haward 1981 Built as the architects' own house and office. Faces sideways like 62 Camden Mews, NW1. Pevsner p401.

1c Laurier Road, NW5 1SD van Heyningen & Haward Architects 1986 The second house that the architects built for themselves.

1b Lady Margaret Road, NW5 2NE Richard Burton (of Ahrends, Burton and Koralek) 1991 Architect's own house. Pevsner p401.

30 College Lane, NW5 1BJ Martin Goalen Architects' own house. Angular house reached from along a public footpath. Pevsner p395.

25A Lady Somerset Road, NW5 1TX Rick Mather 1979 Pevsner p401.

First House, Dartmouth Park Road, NW5 1SU Justin de Syllas (of Avanti Architects) 1993 The curved roof covers a single large upstairs room. Pevsner p402.

Swiss Cottage (NW3, NW6, NW8)

35c Fairhazel Gardens, NW6 3QN Gill Scampton and Andy Barnett A small house for the architects. A neat steel framed house.

Alexandra Road Estate, NW8 Neave Brown of Camden Council Architects Department 1979 Housing estate of huge concrete buildings. Listed. NMR: TQ 28 SE 412

West Hampstead (NW6)

3-12, Rose Joan Mews, Fortune Green Road, LONDON, NW6 1DQ CZWG Backlands site between Ingham Road and Burrard Road. Courtyard houses with curved roofs giving south facing windows. Telegraph Property 25/01/2007

Kilburn (NW6)

246 Kilburn high Road, NW6 Denton Corker Marshall 2003 Dramatic glassy first floor living room overlooking Kilburn Grange Park. By an Australian firm of architects and the airy interior has a distinctive Australian feel. Live/work space.

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Image	Address	Architect	Date	Notes	References
WC1
	30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD	Jacob Blacker Architects	1982
	9 Doughty Mews, WC1N 2PG	Stephen Greenberg & Dean Hawkes
	10-11 Doughty Mews, WC1N 2PG	Piers Ford		Automated glass roof.
	5 Northington Street, WC1N 2JE	Bill Greensmith Architects	2005
	85 Judd Street, WC1H 9NE			End of terrace house with roof garden. Refurbished by Fred Manson with Project Orange, 2002.
	German Lutheran Church, 10 Sandwich Street, WC1H 9PL	Maguire & Murray		Hostel over a church.
	215 Sidmouth Street, WC1
Clerkenwell (EC1)
	Gazzano House, Farringdon Road, EC1	Amin Taha Architects	2004	Block of flats with weathering steel cladding.
	Finsbury Health Centre, 17 Pine Street, EC1R 0JH	Tecton	1938
	Janet Street-Porter house, 44 Britton St, EC1M 5NA	CZWG	1987	Postmodern.	Pevsner p627.
	Architects' Offices, 24 Britton St, EC1M 5UA	YRM	1976	Architects' own office.	Pevsner p627.
	125 Golden Lane, EC1Y 0TJ	Jo Hagan of USE Architects	2000	An extraordinarily tall and thin house. 3.5m wide.
	35 Clerkenwell Close, EC1R 0AU	David Adjaye	2004	Converted, extended small industrial building. Called 'Fog House' by the architect.
	124 St John Street, EC1
	2 Leo Yard, EC1			Behind 124 St John Street.
Primrose Hill (NW1)
	2 Regal Lane, NW1 7TH	John Winter	1961	Self-built for the architects own occupation. Extended in 1997.	H&GM p28. Pevsner p387.
	10 and 11 Regal Lane, NW1 7TH	John Winter	1963	Two mews houses with roof terraces. Pevsner refers to them as Numbers 7 and 9. (p387)
	45 Kingstown St, NW1	Springett Mackay Architecture	2003	Designed around a retractable central roof. Quite monolithic compared to its neighbours.
	47 Kingstown Street, NW1 8JP	Stout and Litchfield		The mass is broken down into smaller volumes in the manner typical of the architects.	Pevsner p387.
	53 Kingstown St NW1			Improved following a refurbishment of c2003.
	55 Kingstown Street, NW1 8JP			A mews house.
	10 Albert Terrace Mews, NW1 7TA			Unusual house engulfed by planting.
	Flats, 10 Regents Park Road, NW1 7TX	Erno Goldfinger	1956	Listed Building. Original construction cost Ł25,000.	H&GS p84; NHGB p104; EH p522; Pevsner p387; IoE No.477844.
	Flats, 41 Gloucester Avenue, NW1 7BA	James Stirling	1968	Functional but ugly and uncompromising block of flats by a famous architect.	Pevsner p387.
Camden Town (NW1)
	Kent House, Ferdinand Street, NW1 8ET	Connell, Ward and Lucas	1936	Two blocks of early modern flats with roof terraces. Flats 1 to 9 in the street block, and 10 - 16 in the rear block. Quite a few changes have been made at ground level and a lift has been added to the front block.Listed.	Pevsner p396; IoE no.477273.
	1a to 1e Oval Road NW1 7EA	Ted Levy, Benjamin and Partners	1963	A row of houses squeezed into a thin tapering space beside the railway. Roof terraces make up for lack of gardens.
	Latitude House, Oval Road, NW1 7EU	Allford Hall Monaghan Morris	2005	Block of twelve flats. (Architecture Today, No 168).
	The Glass Building, Arlington Road, NW1 7HY	CZWG		Imaginative block of flats built next door to a massive doss-house.
	Grand Union Walk, Kentish Town Road, NW1 9LP	Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners	1990	Part of the Sainsbury's Development on Camden Road. A terrace of twelve gardenless, single-aspect houses facing north over the canal. Futuristic Styling.	AR Oct 89 p36; Pevsner p.389; TQ 28 SE 406
	25 & 27 Prowse Place, NW1 9PN	Renton Welch Partnership		The plain front facades conceal glassy houses stepping down to the rear.
	42 & 44 Rochester Place, NW1 9JX	David Wild	1985 & 1989	44 is a simple, powerful design, self-built for the architect's own occupation. 42 was for his neighbour who also wanted one.	Pevsner p.400; NMR:TQ 28 SE 405
Camden: Camden Mews Area (NW1 9--)
	2 Camden Mews, NW1 9DB	Tom Kay	1989	An extension to a ground floor flat.	Pevsner p391.
	66 Camden Square, NW1 9XD	Peter Bell	1985	An attractive timber and glass house.	Pevsner p391.
	4 Camden Mews, NW1	Peter Bell		Alterations making it similar in style to its neighbour, 66 Camden Square.
	16 Murray Street, NW1 9RF	Edward Cullinan Architects	1983		Pevsner p391.
	House at rear of 23 Camden Mews, NW1	Sheila Bull		White blockwork house of unusual neatness and precision.
	31,31a & 33 Camden Mews, NW1 9BY
	79 Camden Mews, NW1 9BU		2002
	54 Camden Mews, NW1 9BX
	81 & 83 Camden Mews, NW1 9BU	Stephen Greenberg and Dean Hawkes
	60 Camden Mews, NW1 9BX	Johnny Winter
	62 Camden Mews, NW1 9BX	Edward Cullinan	1963	Self-built by and for the architect. Faces towards the sun instead of towards the street. An exemplar of how to build low rise/high density. Not listed - but surely will be, along with the nearby Kawecki house.	Pevsner p391.
	64 Camden Mews, NW1 9BX
	Cliff Road Studios, 5 Cliff Road, NW1 9AN	Georgie Wolton	1968	Six flats.	Pevsner p390.
	Cliff Road Studios, 7 Cliff Road, NW1 9AN	Georgie Wolton	1971	The sequel.	Pevsner p390.
Camden: Murray Mews (NW1 9--)
	43 Murray Mews, NW1 9RH	John Townsend (of Rock Townsend)	1977	Built for the architect. The garden elevation is sloping glass and there is a small slope to the top of the road facade. 40 Douglas Rd, N1 and 25 & 27 Prowse Place, NW1 have similar cross-sections.	Pevsner p391.
	34 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ
	32 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ	Hal Currey (of ACQ)	2002
	30 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ	Jeff Kahane	1992	Gets a mention in Pevsner (p391), but surely no.28 is the more deserving?
	28 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ			Well-composed mews house.
	22 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ	Tom Kay	1972		Pevsner p391.
	20 Murray Mews, NW1 9RJ	Richard Gibson	1966	The first of a series of distinctive brick mews houses built by and for architects in this street. The house is composed around a central double-height space.	JP p9. Pevsner p391.
	15,17 & 19 Murray Mews, NW1 9RH	Team 4	1967	Team 4 included Richard & Su Rogers and Norman & Wendy Foster and Georgie Wolton.	JP p131. Pevsner p391.
	1a Cobham Mews, Agar Grove, NW1 9SB	David Chipperfield Architects	1990	Renowned architects' own offices. Situated off Agar Grove.	Pevsner p392.
Kentish Town (NW5)
	Four houses in Crown Place, NW5 2JR	Crawford Partnership		Four hidden mews houses. Each is arranged compactly around a small courtyard. Off the west side of Kentish Town Road.
	1-15 Newbury Mews, NW5 3HP	Brooks Murray Architects	2004	Mews Development
	Flats, Hampstead Gates, 38 Ryland Road, NW5 3EH		2005	Small tower of flats in grounds of converted school building.
	15 Torriano Cottages, NW5 2TA	Philip Pank (of Pank Goss Associates)	1967	Architect's own house.	ABT p114. Pevsner p400.
	5 Caversham Road, NW5 2DT	Colquhoun and Miller	1979	Infill of two flats.	Pevsner p400.
	6-10 Gaisford Street, NW5 2ED	Colquhoun and Miller	1979	Flats.	Pevsner p400.
	10-14 Leighton Crescent, NW5 2QY	Edward Cullinan Architects	1980	Block of 16 flats.	Pevsner p401.
	12 Bartholomew Villas, NW5 2LL	Edward Cullinan	1964	Kawecki House. Careful and clear consideration of aspect and enclosure have lead to a design that is strong but dissonant to its neighbours. Altered at ground floor.	Pevsner p400.
	24A York Rise, NW5 1SR	Joanna van Heyningen & Birkin Haward	1981	Built as the architects' own house and office. Faces sideways like 62 Camden Mews, NW1.	Pevsner p401.
	1c Laurier Road, NW5 1SD	van Heyningen & Haward Architects	1986	The second house that the architects built for themselves.
	1b Lady Margaret Road, NW5 2NE	Richard Burton (of Ahrends, Burton and Koralek)	1991	Architect's own house.	Pevsner p401.
	30 College Lane, NW5 1BJ	Martin Goalen		Architects' own house. Angular house reached from along a public footpath.	Pevsner p395.
	25A Lady Somerset Road, NW5 1TX	Rick Mather	1979		Pevsner p401.
	First House, Dartmouth Park Road, NW5 1SU	Justin de Syllas (of Avanti Architects)	1993	The curved roof covers a single large upstairs room.	Pevsner p402.
Swiss Cottage (NW3, NW6, NW8)
	35c Fairhazel Gardens, NW6 3QN	Gill Scampton and Andy Barnett		A small house for the architects. A neat steel framed house.
	Alexandra Road Estate, NW8	Neave Brown of Camden Council Architects Department	1979	Housing estate of huge concrete buildings. Listed.	NMR: TQ 28 SE 412
West Hampstead (NW6)
	3-12, Rose Joan Mews, Fortune Green Road, LONDON, NW6 1DQ	CZWG		Backlands site between Ingham Road and Burrard Road. Courtyard houses with curved roofs giving south facing windows.	Telegraph Property 25/01/2007
Kilburn (NW6)
	246 Kilburn high Road, NW6	Denton Corker Marshall	2003	Dramatic glassy first floor living room overlooking Kilburn Grange Park. By an Australian firm of architects and the airy interior has a distinctive Australian feel. Live/work space.