House with a Tower in Holly Village

H. A. Darbishire

1865

Listed Building

Swain's Lane and Chester Road, Highgate, North London

Other views

Holly Village

Adjoining cottages in Holly Village

Carved wooden bargeboards and decorated chimneypots in Holly VIllage

Details around windows in Holly VIllage

Exterior of Holly Village, from the street

Entrance

Statue of Baroness Burdett-Coutts

Photograph and text 2008 by Jacqueline Banerjee.

[You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL.]

Holly Village, designed by the architect Henry Astley Darbishire for Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts, consists of a group of eight buildings built around a green, comprising four detached houses and four pairs of adjoining cottages. The houses were apparently intended (though there is some dissent here) as an economic rather than a charitable venture — as Camden Council puts it, for "private rent to those on considerable incomes." Also according to Camden Council, it was built by William Cubbitt, rather than the more commonly cited Thomas Cubbitt.

Sources

Camden Council. "Listed Building Details". Viewed 2 May 2008.

Davies, Gill (with John Reynolds, photographer). One Thousand Buildings of London. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2006.

"Holly Village," BBC item broadcast on 27 December 2006, and available here.

Weinreb, Ben and Christopher Hibbert, eds. The London Encyclopaedia. London: Macmillan, rev. ed. 1992.

---

Last modified 29 September 2012