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Hendon
Bell Inn
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.
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.
52 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-century church and the Church Farmhouse Museum.
Our Lady of Dolours. RC 1927. 1863, completed 1927 by T.H.B. Scott. Cruciform, of ragstone; Early English detail.
Creswick Walk
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.
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.
'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.
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
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.
Burroughs House. Dignified c18 house four bay with a parapet. .
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