Glenhill Close conservation area
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Location
Glenhill Close is located to the east of the area known as Church End and due south of Finchley Central Tube station. This small estate of privately-owned flats lies between Lichfield Grove and The Avenue, an historic footpath running between Regents Park Road and Manor View. To the immediate south of The Avenue is Avenue House and its grounds.
The Close is accessed midway along Lichfield Grove via a gap between pairs of semi-detached, Victorian houses. A pedestrian access gate is set in the southern boundary wall of the site and this leads directly onto The Avenue. The boundary of the existing Conservation Area of Church End (Finchley), is to the immediate south of Glenhill Close running east/west along The Avenue and then south to coincide with the curtilage of the grounds of Avenue House.
The Conservation Area of Glenhill Close covers approximately 1.1 hectares and is entirely residential in character comprising 66 flats.
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Description
In the latter part of the 19th century the land on which Glenhill Close now stands had not been developed but fell within the curtilage of a Victorian villa called ‘The Limes’ on Regents Park Road, owned by Hugh Taylor a Justice of the Peace.
This building was demolished between 1912 and 1915 and was replaced by the New Bohemia Cinema, built in 1920. This cinema survived until 1959 and stood on the site now occupied by Gateway House.
Glenhill Close was developed in two distinct phases, the first and most architecturally impressive phase was in 1936 when 46 flats were constructed. At this time the Cymric Tennis Club, which dates from the 1920s, occupied the south western part of the site and thus limited this first phase to six 2 storey blocks. The tennis club disappeared in the late 1950s and in 1961 the second phase of development consisting of four, 2-storey blocks containing 20 flats, commenced.
Documents
Glenhill Close conservation area Character Appraisal
Glenhill Close conservation area map