The London Foot Hospital and Attached Railings
THE LONDON FOOT HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 33-40, FITZROY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1112997
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The London Foot Hospital and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- THE LONDON FOOT HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 33-40, FITZROY SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1112997
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The London Foot Hospital and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LONDON FOOT HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 33-40, 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:
- THE LONDON FOOT HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 33-40, 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 29165 82041
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2982SW FITZROY SQUARE
798-1/93/450 (South side)
10/06/54 Nos.33-40 (Consecutive)
The London Foot Hospital and
attached railings
GV I
Symmetrical terrace of 8 houses forming the south side of
Fitzroy Square, now in use as a hospital. c1792-8. By Robert
and James Adam. Nos 36, 37 & 38 facades restored in facsimile
following war damage. Portland stone with rusticated ground
floor. Symmetrical facade with 3 bays in the centre and at
each end projecting.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and basements. 3 windows each. Nos 33 & 40
with 5 window returns (mostly blind) to Conway Street and
Fitzroy Street respectively. 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 recesses. Upper
floors with square-headed, recessed sash windows, the 1st
floor with continuous cast-iron balcony. Plain 2nd floor sill
band. Main cornice with enriched frieze at 3rd floor level.
Cornice above attic storey with blocking course. Centre
projection with 2 recessed columns in antis through the 1st to
2nd floor. Above, a Diocletian window. Each bay to either side
with pilasters rising from 1st to 3rd floor supporting the
main cornice. Attic storey with 5 oculi, the outer 2 enriched
with swags. End pavilions; 1st floor centre bay with 2
recessed Ionic columns in antis supporting a recessed
architrave and enriched frieze. To either side, shallow,
rectangular niches with roundels of Classical figures above.
Main cornice at 3rd floor level with moulded, enriched panel.
Central Diocletian window to attic storey.
INTERIORS: mostly plain with enriched ceiling cornices, stone
staircases with iron balustrades and some marble fireplaces.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn
finials to areas.
Nos 33, 37 and 40 were listed on 14/05/74.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and
Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 52-8).
Listing NGR: TQ2915482020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477300
- 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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