The Cloud House

• I WAS horrified by the proposed plan to tear down the old Verger’s House in Vicars Road and replace it with a “fairytale” property which from the artists’ impressions in the article is not only far too large for the site but hideous! (‘Cloud House’ couple unveil design for fairytale home in Gospel Oak, February 27).

St Martin’s Church itself is Grade I listed. Verger’s Cottage and St Martin’s church hall to its left are what remain of the row of buildings built in the same period as the church itself (and likely also by the architect Edward Buckton Lamb) which included to the left of the church hall on the corner opposite the church a large Victorian gothic vicarage. The vicarage was torn down in the 1960s.

In this area of Camden, which was subject to the demolition of almost all the existing Victorian buildings during the 1960s and early 70s as part of a massive urban renewal project, the church, the hall and the cottage are a valuable and important part of our local heritage and a fantasy Disneyesque monster should not be allowed to destroy part of that.

I hope that the Camden History Society and others concerned with the loss of heritage may be able to prevent this house being demolished.

JEAN MACRAE
Allcroft Road, NW5