Numbers 20-32 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 20-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-32, FITZROY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1112996
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 20-32 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 20-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-32, FITZROY SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1112996
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 20-32 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 20-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-32, FITZROY SQUARE
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 20-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-32, FITZROY SQUARE
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 29086 82063
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2982SW FITZROY SQUARE
798-1/93/449 (West side)
10/06/54 Nos.20-32 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
GV II*
Terrace of 13 houses forming the western side of Fitzroy
Square. c1832-35. Stucco with rusticated ground floor.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and basements. 3 windows each. 3 windows
at each end and centre 7 windows projecting. Round-arched
ground floor openings linked by impost bands. Doorways with
pilaster-jambs carrying cornice-heads; fanlights (some radial
patterned) and panelled doors. Sash windows in shallow, plain
stucco recesses. Upper storeys with square-headed, recessed
sashes. Continuous cast-iron balcony to 1st floor windows.
Moulded 2nd floor sill band. Main cornice with plain frieze
below attic storey. Cornice and blocking course. Central bays
with 4 Ionic engaged columns in antis rising through 1st and
2nd floors. 1 bay to either side with pilasters rising through
1st and 2nd floors and recessed, tripartite sash windows,
those on the ground floor being segmental-arched. No.32 with 3
window (all blind) return to Grafton Way.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with
tasselled spearhead finials to areas. Cast-iron foot scrapers
and most with mosaic top steps.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.21, was the home of Robert Gascoyne Cecil,
3rd Marquess of Salisbury & Prime Minister (GLC plaque). No.29
was the home of George Bernard Shaw and from 1907-11 Virginia
Woolf had rooms here (commemorative plaques). This terrace
complements the Adam blocks in the square, though it is very
different in design.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and
Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 52-8).
Listing NGR: TQ2906982075
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477299
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood St Pancras Part 3: Volume 21, (1949), 52-58
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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