Stanfield House
Stanfield House is a Grade II* listed building in Hampstead in London. Located at the junction of Hampstead High Street and Prince Arthur Road. The original building dates to around 1730.
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The building takes its name from the Victorian artist Clarkson Stanfield, a noted painter of Romantic seascapes. Stanfield was a close friend of the author of Charles Dickens who visited them there. Stanfield lived there from 1847 to 1865 before moving to nearby Belsize Park. [1]
Later in the nineteenth century the lower floor served as a public library. The House was significantly truncated to make room for the construction of Prince Arthur Road in the late 1860s. [2] Around 1940 the artist Walter Bayes procured a watercolour depiction if the house, which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. [3]
Stanfield House has been a listed building since 1950, with its status last amended in 1999. [4]
References
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[edit]- Bard, Robert. Hampstead & Highgate Through Time. Amberley Publishing, 2015.
- Cherry, Bridget & Pevsner, Nikolaus. London 4: North. Yale University Press, 2002.
- Van der Merwe, Pieter & Took, Roger. The Spectacular career of Clarkson Stanfield. Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1979.
- Wade, Christopher. The Streets of Hampstead. Camden History Society, 2000.
- Weinreb, Ben, Hibbert, Christopher, Keay, John & Keay, Julia. The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 2010.