UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CHEMISTRY LABORATORY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CHEMISTRY LABORATORY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL, GOWER PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322169
Date first listed:: 13-May-1974
List Entry Name:: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CHEMISTRY LABORATORY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL
Statutory Address:: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CHEMISTRY LABORATORY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL, GOWER PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322169
Date first listed:: 13-May-1974
List Entry Name:: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CHEMISTRY LABORATORY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL
Statutory Address 1:: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CHEMISTRY LABORATORY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL, GOWER PLACE

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Location

Statutory Address:: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CHEMISTRY LABORATORY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL, GOWER PLACE

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29525 82364

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2982SW GOWER PLACE 798-1/93/602 (South side) 14/05/74 University College Chemistry Laboratory and attached railings & wall

GV II

University chemistry laboratory. 1912-13. By FM Simpson. Stone facade with later slate mansard roof and dormers. 2 main storeys, attic and basement. Symmetrical facade in modified Neo-Greek style with projecting end and central bays; fenestration 2:8:3:8:3. Main pedimented entrance distyle-in-antis with columns (Tower of Winds capitals) rising through ground to 1st floor and supporting an entablature inscribed "ANNO DOMI MCMXIII UNIVERSITY OF LONDON UNIV COLL", beneath which paterae. Double flight of steps to architraved doorway with console brackets carrying pediment. Flanking bays with shallow pilasters, rising from rusticated basement podium, between window bays and carrying a simplified entablature. Recessed metal transom and mullion windows, the 1st floor with lugged aprons enriched with paterae. Parapet. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings and stone wall to areas with candelabra of box form flanking entrance steps. The buildings around the quadrangle of University College form a group. (Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 87-90).

Listing NGR: TQ2949582345

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Legacy System number:: 477386
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Survey of London' in Survey of London - Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood St Pancras Part 3: Volume 21, (1949), 87-90

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.