Hendon Town Hall
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Post to the west Colindale Aerodrome
Post to the east Hendon Church Road
Post to the south Hendon Station
Aerodrome Road
Plans for an 18 hole golf course. Grahame-White used golf architect Dr. Alister Mackenzie to
design the golf course In 1920 the name was changed to the London Country
Club, Unfortunately in 1922 the Northern
Line extension went though the planned golf course which meant it has to be
compressing between the railway line and Aerodrome Road. In 1925 Grahame-White
was forced to close the London Country Club, and the clubhouse. the tennis
courts and polo grounds had been closed, but the golf course was kept open. It
had closed by 1930
Bell Lane
Cluster of shops at the junction with Brent Street
Brampton Grove
Houses existed by 1896
Brent Street
Houses built in the 18th.
Bell Inn
Church End
Church End Farm turned into a model farm 1889 by Wimperis Arber for
C.F. Hancock of Hendon Hall.
Milking parlour a low brick range with crested ridge, at right angles to the
road. The hay loft at the North end is quaintly
apse-shaped, with a finial.
Adjoining house.
Also part of the farm, in a picturesque Norman Shaw style, tile-hung and half-timbered.
Church
farmhouse, bought by and restored by Hendon council in
1944 –1954. Built around 1660. Now a museum and it is a survival from rural
Hendon. Chiefly c17, with red brick three-bay front of two storeys and
original dormer windows. Behind it is a
c18 service wing which was later heightened to two storeys. Some reused c16 panelling in the hall,
formerly upstairs. Upstairs the main chamber lies over the hall, with closet
over the entrance lobby.
Older
house with
irregular cross-wings, much altered.
Church Road.
Plain low-
and medium-rise housing by the
Borough
Architect's Office 1975-9, in loose cul-de sacs behind a range along Church Road
Hinges Paddock open field. Last of old Church Farm
1-10
Daniel Almshouses 1729. School in the east wing. Two-storeyed centre
with pedimented gable little gabled comer
pavilions with newly fashionable Diocletia windows, one-storeyed tenements between.
The school in the wing has an inscription
dating it 1766, but it was much restored in the
c19.
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Greyhound .Pub which was the church house. Pub. Where
they held the parish meetings. Rebuilt 1896. the first licensed premises on this site dated from 1675. The present building fits neatly between an
18th church and the Church Farmhouse Museum.
Egerton Gardens
Our Lady of Dolours. RC 1927. 1863,
completed 1927 by T.H.B. Scott. Cruciform, of ragstone; Early English detail.
Creswick Walk
Pillar box by A.
Handyside & Co. Ltd. Derby & London.
Foundry; Britannia Foundry and Engineering Works. Anonymous Lower posting aperture, large 19in
diameter, 1884
Greyhound Hill.
Hendon Church Farm
Museum of Local History. Farm until 2nd World War. Hendon’s oldest house.
Gutter Edge
Farm birthplace of Thomas Tilling
Hendon
Roman remains found.
Belonged to Abbot of Westminster and Wolsey stayed here the night before
he died. Name from ‘Hendun’ 959, ‘Heandun’ c.975 ‘Handone’ 1086,
‘Hendon’ 1199, that is "place at
the high hill', from Old English. The church of St Mary around which the
original settlement developed stands on a prominent hill, reaching 280 ft and
visible for many miles from the west and south-west and the name is first recorded when it was a hamlet at the top of Greyhound
Hill, The old manor of Hendon covered
8,000 acres of woodlands with clearing settlements.
Johnsons of Hendon. The
firm of Johnson's began as assayers in central London in 1743; because of their
expertise with such chemicals as silver nitrate, the firm became prominent in
the early development of photography. They acquired a site at Hendon during WW1
and the photographic chemical side of their
work was greatly increased by the expansion of aerial photography for
military purposes. In 1927 the rest of
the central London firm moved to Hendon and in 1948 the name of 'Johnsons of
Hendon1 was adopted. They were one of the most important manufacturers of
photographic chemicals and equipment in this country.
Summerfields Road
St Mary's Church of England
High School, By the 1970s a
different, tougher tradition was
established. Senior School 1976-7 by K.
C. White & Partners, is a rigorously plain two-storey cube with internal
courtyard; of russet bricks with pebbly floor bands.
The Burroughs
'land on the hill', alluding to the
'high down' which gives a name to Hendon itself There has possibly been a
confusion with 'burrows' in some form – ‘Burrows’ 1822, probably 'the animal
burrows', from Middle English ‘borow’, with reference to holes made by badgers,
foxes, or rabbits. ‘Le Berwestret’ 1316,
‘Borowis in Hendon’ c.l530, ‘Burrowes’ 1574. This is an old bit of a village which was separate but is
now linked to Church End by the civic
buildings and a row of 19th
cottage with rustic porches.
The Pond, which was a landmark, has gone, replaced by a pedestrian
tunnel under a road.
Neo Georgian library,
architectural blend. Eclectic,
Cattle trough
Hendon Bus Garage, London General Omnibus Co. entrance was
in Church Road
Town
Hall. Forming the nucleus of a cluster of turn-of the
century municipal buildings arranged around The Burroughs, Hendon Town Hall was
built for the new District Council in 1901 to designs by Thomas Henry Watson.
Watson’s design originally failed to qualify in a limited architectural competition assessed by Arthur Beresford Pite
but nevertheless found favour with a typically cost conscious council as it was
one of the few that could be carried out
for £12,000 'which was the essence of
the contract' a two storey building with attics, it is executed in red brick
and stone in a Free Renaissance style, with some details derived from Gothic traditions. designed to express
Hendon' historical associations with the
Knight' Templars. in terms of
layout it was more conventional with council chamber' committee rooms and
chairman's office on the first floor when spaces were re-ordered in the 1930s
when the building was extended to provide additional office space.
architectural blend. A broad Free
Renaissance front in red brick and stone, with a hipped roof with timber lantern
rising behind a lively balustraded parapet.
Arches with blocked voussoirs to the ground floor. A pair of stone corbelled-out
mullioned-and-transomed oriels light the Council Chamber on the first
floor. This has a coved ceiling and
original seating. Sculpture: Family of
Man, by Itzhak Ofer, 1981, bronze. Built in the years shortly before the building
of the line to Golders Green by Hendon Urban District Council.
Public Library, By T.M. Wilson, 1929, Eclectic
Neo-Baroque. A recessed centre with two
attenuated fluted columns in antis, and projecting pedimented wings, whose main
windows have swan-necked pediments with brick niches above.
Fire station. Competition with a design to relate
to the town hall. It won the
competition in 1911, with a design intended to relate to the Town Hall. He was clearly influenced by the LCC's
admirable fire stations in a free Arts and Crafts spirit. Red brick over a stone ground floor with
three arched openings; two canted stone oriels with mullioned windows; the
stone surfaces very smooth and the mouldings
Middlesex University. This campus of the University started as Hendon
Technical College; built by the MCC H. W. Burchett, 1937. Serious classical building . Extensions of 1955 and 1969, refectory and
engineering blocks. Lighter and brighter
1990s additions for the University. Clock tower. Faculty Books.
Metropolitan Convalescent Institution
Hendon Methodist church, 1937 By Welch &
Lander, 1937. Interior subdivided
and refurnished 1982. Stained glass
window by Christopher Webb; the work of women: St Agnes to Josephine Butler.
Methodist Institute behind, 1910, now, Yakar Jewish Adult Education
Burroughs House. Dignified c18 house
four bay with a parapet. .
Pillar box by A.
Handyside & Co. Ltd. Derby & London.
Foundry; Britannia Foundry and Engineering Works. V.R. cypher
Large 19 dia. 1887 - c.1899
Watford Way
St. Joseph’s R.C. Convent
and School. This came to Hendon in 1882 from
Whitechapel. They belonged to an order
known as Poor Handmaids of Jesus from Dembach in the Rhineland in the mid c19,
invited to England by Cardinal Manning in 1875.
They moved to Norden Court, now Westminster House, c.1887. The once fine grounds were built over but Norden House remains. Also plain school buildings, the block of
1900
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