Lamp Post on Corner of Gordon Square and Gordon Street
LAMP POST ON CORNER OF GORDON SQUARE AND GORDON STREET, GORDON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113042
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Lamp Post on Corner of Gordon Square and Gordon Street
- Statutory Address:
- LAMP POST ON CORNER OF GORDON SQUARE AND GORDON STREET, GORDON SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113042
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Lamp Post on Corner of Gordon Square and Gordon Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAMP POST ON CORNER OF GORDON SQUARE AND GORDON STREET, GORDON 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:
- LAMP POST ON CORNER OF GORDON SQUARE AND GORDON STREET, GORDON 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 29694 82296
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2982SE GORDON SQUARE
798-1/94/598 (East side)
04/08/81 Lamp post on corner of Gordon Square
and Gordon Street
II
Includes: Lamp post on corner of Gordon Square and Gordon
Street GORDON STREET.
Lamp post. 1890s. Cast by McDowell, Steven and Co, Glasgow and
London. Cast-iron. Base decorated with acanthus leaf. Door
with "St Pancras" on currently missing. Tall, plain shaft with
decorated band. Top with the original carbon arc lamp cradle
type fitting although converted to take an incandescent lamp
and out of use since 1976. HISTORICAL NOTE: of interest as the
last remaining of this type of lamp from the pioneering
authority in electric street lighting (1892) in London.
CAMDEN
TQ2982SE GORDON STREET
798-1/94/598 Lamp post on corner of Gordon Square
04/08/81 and Gordon Street
II
See under: Lamp post on corner of Gordon Square and Gordon
Street GORDON SQUARE.
Listing NGR: TQ2969482296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477369
- 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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