Numbers 1-4 and Attached Balustrades and Railings
NUMBERS 1-4 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES AND RAILINGS, 1-4, CUMBERLAND PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1067384
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-4 and Attached Balustrades and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1-4 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES AND RAILINGS, 1-4, CUMBERLAND PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1067384
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-4 and Attached Balustrades and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1-4 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES AND RAILINGS, 1-4, CUMBERLAND PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1-4 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES AND RAILINGS, 1-4, CUMBERLAND PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28725 82949
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2882NE CUMBERLAND PLACE
798-1/87/288 (East side)
14/05/74 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
and attached balustrades & railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CUMBERLAND PLACE
Nos.1-4 (Consecutive))
(Formerly Listed as:
CUMBERLAND PLACE
Railings to garden forecourt of
Nos.1-4 (consec))
GV I
Block of 4 houses giving impression of 1 large house. c1828.
By John Nash and possibly J Thomson. Stucco with brick rear
elevation. Slated mansard roof with dormers.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical block with main elevation to Regent's
Park but entrances on rear to Cumberland Place. 4 storeys,
attics and basements. 7 window range. Returns with 3 windows
and projecting semicircular bays rising to main cornice. Main
elevation with projecting end bays and central projecting
tetrastyle pedimented Corinthian portico, columns rising
through 1st and 2nd floors, ground floor forming a podium.
Corinthian pilasters to other bays, paired at projecting bays,
supporting the main entablature with projecting cornice at 3rd
floor level. Recessed sashes to ground, 2nd and 3rd floors.
1st floor with casements and cast-iron balconies. Cornice and
blocking course above 3rd floor. Rear elevation with
projecting end bays of 3 windows each, mostly blind. Entrances
in projecting stucco porticoes with pilasters carrying
entablature and blocking course; fanlights and panelled doors.
Nos 2 & 3 with attached cast-iron railings to areas and steps
flanking entrances.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached stone balustrades and plain
wrought-iron geometrical railings on low wall to garden
forecourt.
(Survey of London: Vol. XIX, Old St Pancras and Kentish Town
(St Pancras II): London: -1938: 118).
Listing NGR: TQ2872482949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477036
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Old St Pancras and Kentish Town The Parish of St Pancras Part 2: Volume 19 , (1938), 118
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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