THIS INDENTURE - Historic Development of Hampstead, London (Essay & Historic Artifact)

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CAREFULLY CURATED, ARCHIVAL TROVE OF INVALUABLE, ESOTERIC ANTIQUITIES. STORED IN HIS VACUUM-SEALED, INDOMINABLE VAULT & SCANNED WITH WHITE “KID-GLOVES,” THIS 1872 HISTORIC DOCUMENT HEREIN OFFERS A UNIQUE GLIMPSE INTO THE MOST IMPORTANT PERIOD EVER IN THE URBANIZATION OF HAMPSTEAD.........COLLECT FRIENDLY! __________________________________________________________________

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Richard Steele, the Playwright and Politician, resided in the White House in 1712 to evade his creditors, which was the only building on Hampstead’s Chalcots estate (except for 2 farmhouses on England's Lane) until the 19th century. The house stood on Haverstock Hill near Eton College, and was also where Sir Charles Sedley, the raucous Poet, Wit, & Politician died in 1701. Named after the surrounding field on which it sat, the White House was still the District’s sole cottage in 1755, and there were only 6 houses existing on the vast estate by 1811.

The first proposals to develop the Chalcots were made in the early 1820s to capitalize on the area’s building boom (especially near Regent's Park to the south), but they were made by private investors, not by Eton College. The college’s solicitor appointed John Shaw, the Surveyor and Developer of St. John's Wood, to obtain an Act in 1826 to grant 99-year building leases. Shaw designed schemes in the late 1820s for 15 acres fronting Haverstock Hill to consist of half-acre plots for detached and semi-detached villas -- Rather than drafting a much riskier “master plan” in a over-saturated market due to the mini-boom. In 1830 Eton bricked 100 yards of roadway in 100 days (much to the chagrin of Headmaster John Keate due to schedule-delays and cost over-runs), neatly naming it Adelaide Road to obviously gain favour from the Queen consort. No speculators were attracted though, likely since the London & Birmingham Railway’s debut in 1838 apparently made the newly industrialized area appear too “bleak” for residential investments in a “slow” market.

In 1830, Builder William Wynn erected houses fronting Haverstock Hill with assistance from a Holborn Plumber. A local Cowkeeper had also replaced his humble cottage with a more “significant” lodge, but by 1940 there were still no buildings beyond those fronting Haverstock Hill.

During the 1830s Eton promoted a grand scheme for the estate’s southern end at Primrose Hill, calling for a large mausoleum, a cemetery with classical buildings and a botanical garden. But plans were aborted in 1842 with the Hill’s acquisition for public recreation. John Shaw the junior (1803-70) succeeded his father as Surveyor in late 1832 and drew a master plan in 1840 that was rejected by Eton, so the layout of the streets continued to evolve per the homebuilders’ whims. It was Shaw who first lobbied that early buildings should be concentrated on Adelaide Road once Haverstock Hill’s houses were completed in 1848. (cont. on p. 6)

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ON MAY 16, 1872 A REASSIGNMENT OF A MESSUAGE &

PREMISES WAS EXECUTED FOR NO. 15 OAKLEY VILLAS AT

ADELAIDE ROAD IN HAMPSTEAD, MIDDLESEX FOR THE SUM

OF 750 POUNDS IN TRANSFERENCE OF OWNERSHIP FROM

THE ESTATES OF THOMAS JACKSON & SAMUEL CUMING

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Hampstead is best known f liberal, artistic, musical an

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Scanned from Deighton’s Personal Antiquity Archives: Authentic-Original 1872 Legal Document – Front View (Ink Manuscript & Wax Seals on Vellum, 24”x30”)

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The Parish of Hampstead became a Metropolitan Borough of London in 1900. In 1963 it was disbanded to then merge with the Borough of Camden, Middlesex County in Greater London.

“West-Enders” are especially still quite proud of their “ ‘Amp-stead ” heritage

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By 1842 William Wynn, an Auctioneer and Land Agent who married the daug fronting Haverstock Hill and on the eastern section of Adelaide Road. He co One was Samuel Cuming, a Devonshire Carpenter who grew an enterprising co his first building permits from Eton College for 8 plots along Adelaide Road, and 1852 on Adelaide Road, 3 storeyed types (above basements) in a plain crafted gabled pairs of 2 storeys (with attics above basements) on Provost Ro

Cuming lived in one of his own houses on Bridge Road in 1851, just south of trades and manufacturing, 19% the professions, 15% self employed, 14% cle last included a Portrait Painter at no. 4 Provost Road, and Alfred Clint (1807 (1819-77) lived at no. 3 Eton Villas, with Ewan Christian (1814-95) the Arch (1813-85) the Egyptologist both dwelled in Cumming’s masterpiece: Oakley Vi

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1872 MAP OF HAMPSTEAD

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ghter of wealthy Bamford Industrialist Cameron Moore, had built 41 houses onstructed only a few per year and subleased certain plots to other builders. onstruction empire, employing over 80 workers by 1851. In 1843 he procured , followed later by 4 more. Cuming built 104 stuccoed duplexes between 1845 n late Georgian style, plus a few Gothic examples on the southern end. He oad for Eton Villas, which included Tuscan eaves to lend a “villa-like” effect.

Adelaide Road. Of the 117 who resided in his homes, 35% were employed in erical workers, and another 14% were in artistic or literary occupations. The 7-83) the Cartoonist and Illustrator at no. 7. Portrait Engraver John Jackson hitect at no. 6, while William Dobson (1817-98) the Artist, and Samuel Birch llas on Adelaide Road at no. 15 and no. 17, respectively. (cont. on back cover)

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(cont. from p. 7) New houses on Adelaide Road began migrating west from its intersection with Eton Road in 1848, having reached the Eyre estate by 1853. Early plans for houses with mews never materialized, so a carriage-cab service opened in 1856 along the street providing easy access to this burgeoning neighbourhood. [Hampstead emerged uniquely void of the extremes of poverty and wealth seen in other Districts of London]. In 1856 Samuel Cuming extended building at the west end of the estate on King Henry’s and Merton Rise Roads, just south of and parallel to Adelaide Road, as well as on Winchester and Harley Roads which defined the estate’s western border.

Most houses were semi-detached Italianesque villas, but there were also terraced shops and a public house on King's College Road, built in 1858 by the Eyre estate’s Builder Robert Yeo to whom Cuming subleased. By 1862 Adelaide Road formed a cluster of buildings through the centre of the estate with side roads and groups of houses at both ends. It was more complete towards the east where buildings included ornaments by Sculptor Alfred Stevens exampled on St. Saviour's church (1856) on Eton Road, and on the Wellington House, designed for his own residency but left unfinished when he died in 1875. Primrose Hill Road was planned by Cuming in 1858 to finalize his vision, linking the estate’s northern boundary (England's Lane) to its southern extents (Regent's Park Road).

The man who accomplished the earliest and most successful projects at Chalcots, Samuel Cuming, retired wealthy in the 1860s and died in 1870. His legacy is turning our beloved “ ‘Amp-stead” into a dynamic and protuberant part of Greater London, dripping rich in history and still thriving 150 years later. “THIS INDENTURE ” was purchased in 2015 in a thrift-shop by Deighton for 50 pence, a yellowed parchment chronicling the 1872 sale of Cuming’s property at no. 15 Oakley Villas on Adelaide Road for a mere 750 pounds by executors of his estate, 2 years after his death. As an important artifact of 19th century Greater London history, it was SAM professionally appraised in 2019 for 7,800 pounds, CUMING and authenticated to be the IS HAMPSTEAD’S 1st with T.F.T. Baker only document of its kind WEST-END and to survive wholly intact.

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