Old Conduit House

Old Conduit House at 1 Lyndhurst Terrace is a semi-detached house in Hampstead, London NW3. The property is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England with the conjoining 3 Lyndhurst Terrace.[1]

The houses was built by the stained glass manufacturers John Burlison and his son-in-law, Alfred Bell (of the firm Clayton and Bell), for themselves. Burlison was Bell's father in law and a door originally separated the two properties. The houses were originally named Oswald House and Barford House.[2] The houses were combined into a single residence after Burlison's death in 1868 and renamed Bayford House. Charles Buckridge designed a Gothic interior for Bell in the new house.[1]

Bayford House was renamed Old Conduit House in 1934.[2] Old Conduit Lodge was built in the grounds of Bayford house as a wedding present for the owners daughter.[2]

Old Conduit House was offered for sale for £1.75 million in 2003.[3]

Old Conduit House became a boarding house divided into bedsits in the 20th century; the novelist Fay Weldon was a frequent visitor and wrote about the house in her 1995 novel Splitting.[4]

References
  1. Historic England, "Numbers 1 and 3 and attached boundary walls (1379406)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 12 February 2019
  2. Camden History Society. Street History Group (1 January 1973). More streets of Hampstead: an historical survey of streets, houses and residents in the Southern sector of the Old Borough. High Hill Press. p. 32.
  3. "A bid for better things". Evening Standardauthor=David Spittles. 12 February 2003. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  4. Fay Weldon (1 December 2007). Auto da Fay: A Memoir. Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. ISBN 978-0-8021-9925-6.

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