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Entrance to Holly Village. For more on this group of Victorian residences visit this http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/darbishire/1.html
©Julian Osley
For more on this group of Victorian residences visit this http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/darbishire/1.html
©Julian Osley
For more on this group of Victorian residences visit this http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/darbishire/1.html
©Julian Osley
One of the many unique tombs to be found in the Highgate Cemetery.
©Jennifer
Escorted tour through the West side of Highgate Cemetery in 1995
©Jennifer
©Chris Whippet
For more on this exclusive Victorian estate development in the picturesque style visit this http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-478482-1-12-hampstead
©Julian Osley
One of the Gothic-style buildings dating from the 1860's
©David Smith
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©David Howard
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©Chris Whippet
Dist:0.1km<br/>The main entrance to this model village of eight houses commissioned by Lady Burdett Coutts who lived in a splendid house close by. The family's diamond-shaped coat-of-arms is carved prominently in Portland stone on each building, and over the entrance arch is engraved, "Holly Village Erected By A. G. B. Coutts A.D. 1865." The sculptures on either side of the archway are meant to represent Lady Burdett-Coutts herself, and her governess and friend, Hannah Brown. Burdett-Coutts holds a dog, and Mrs Brown a dove.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.1km<br/>Part of the Holly Lodge Estate, a private estate off Swain's Lane
©Danny Robinson
Dist:0.1km<br/>Holly Village was designed by the architect Henry Astley Darbishire for Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts, and is made up of eight houses and cottages around a green. It was built by William Cubitt. The houses are close to the site of Holly Lodge, the Coutts's splendid country villa on Highgate's West Hill. Very expensive materials were used in the construction including teak wood and Portland stone, and Italian craftsmen undertook the carving. Both in the stonework and the woodcarving there are many unusual details including patterned brickwork, crenellations, cornices, dormers, carved faces and small animals, probably specified by Burdett Coutts who founded the RSPCA. The latter designs reflect Burdett-Coutts's love of animals, which led to the founding of the RSPCA.
©Nigel Mykura
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©David Howard
Dist:0.2km<br/>Part of the Holly Lodge Estate, a private estate off Swain's Lane.
©Danny Robinson

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