University College Hospital General Block Only and Attached Railings
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL GENERAL BLOCK ONLY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113059
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- University College Hospital General Block Only and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL GENERAL BLOCK ONLY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113059
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- University College Hospital General Block Only and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL GENERAL BLOCK ONLY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GOWER STREET
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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:
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL GENERAL BLOCK ONLY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GOWER 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 29478 82220
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2982SW GOWER STREET
798-1/93/615 (West side)
12/03/74 University College Hospital General
Block only and attached railings
GV II
Hospital block. 1897-1906. By Alfred and Paul Waterhouse. Red
brick with terracotta horizontal bands and dressings. Steeply
pitched slated roofs with dormers. Cross-shaped plan set
diagonally to Gower Street.
EXTERIOR: 4 main storeys, attics and basements. Central
entrance lodge; 3 bays, 2 storeys and attic with terracotta
bands and rounded angles. Round-arched ground floor openings.
Central entrance flanked by columns supporting an entablature
with parapet and ball finials. Segmental arched 1st floor
sashes separated by pilasters supporting a projecting dentil
cornice and pediment over the central bays. Pediment flanked
by full size sash window dormers in steep mansard roof. Main
buildings with central staircase projection with 3 lancet
windows and steep pointed roof behind which a bell tower with
spire. To either side, tall chimney-stacks and pots.
Diagonally from this feature, wings with projecting 2-window,
pedimented bays. Main range of windows with enriched surrounds
and pierced decorative grilles to aprons. Wings terminate with
a bay of balconies to each floor and 3-window rectangular
towers, with dormers corbelled at the angles, and surmounted
by pointed roofs with rectangular, louvred features. Main
cornice at attic level.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with parapet
wall behind area basement blocks.
HISTORICAL NOTE: important as the first reaction against
Florence Nightingale's long-pervasive pavilion planning, and
the first importation of American ideas on 'towers of healing'
for city sites.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and
Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 85-6).
Listing NGR: TQ2947882220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477409
- 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), 85-6
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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