St Mungo's Housing
ST MUNGO'S HOUSING, 83, ENDELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078296
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- St Mungo's Housing
- Statutory Address:
- ST MUNGO'S HOUSING, 83, ENDELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078296
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- St Mungo's Housing
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MUNGO'S HOUSING, 83, ENDELL STREET
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:
- ST MUNGO'S HOUSING, 83, ENDELL STREET
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 30102 81284
Details
TQ3081SW
798-1/105/388
CAMDEN
ENDELL STREET (South West side)
No.83 St Mungo's Housing
(Formerly Listed as: ST GILES HIGH STREET St Giles in the Fields Church of England Primary School)
15/01/73
GV
II
School now a hostel for the homeless. 1860. By E.M Barry. Polychrome brick with some terracotta and stone dressings under a slate roof in tough Gothic revival style. Rectangular plan on the corner of Endell Street and High Holborn.
EXTERIOR: entrance front on Endell Street, Four storeys, basement and dormers, five windows (seven windows on return to High Holborn). Ground floor yellow stock brick with red brick bands with paired, pointed-arch windows and centrally placed doorway with fanlight and stone either side of round arch inscribed NATIONAL SCHOOLS. String course at first floor level on which recessed square headed windows with brick mullions under a continuous band of decorative blue and red tiles. Second floor to left, a pair of pointed arch, decorative terracotta tiled windows with a marble colonnette. To the right, three identical pointed arch windows under an asymmetrically placed gable containing two lancet windows with marble colonnette and oculus above under a pointed terracotta arch. Trefoil window in pointed arch in the apex. To either side, rising through the gable, vertical brick features. The third floor comprises a continuous mostly blind arcade of pointed arches to eaves level. High Holborn return has similar fenestration and dressings with two large dormers and scattered small ones.
INTERIOR: altered but retains some original features.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as parish schools for 1500 children, together with an industrial school and soup kitchen for the poor of the Drury Lane slums.
Listing NGR: TQ3010281284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477189
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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