University College Hospital Medical School, Nurses Home 1907 Building and Attached Railings
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, NURSES HOME 1907 BUILDING AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113060
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- University College Hospital Medical School, Nurses Home 1907 Building and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, NURSES HOME 1907 BUILDING AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113060
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- University College Hospital Medical School, Nurses Home 1907 Building and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, NURSES HOME 1907 BUILDING AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GOWER 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:
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, NURSES HOME 1907 BUILDING 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 29509 82170
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2982SE GOWER STREET
798-1/94/616 (West side)
21-NOV-1990 University College Hospital Medical
School, Nurses Home 1907 building and attached railings
GV II
University College Hospital Medical School and that part of
the Nurses Home adjacent to the junction of University Street
and Huntley Street Medical School. 1905. By Paul Waterhouse.
Red brick with stone dressings and banded quoining. Slate
roofs. Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: entrance front to Gower Street of 3-storey 7-bay
range. Central feature of projecting broken segmental pediment
set on giant order of Ionic pilasters flanking Ionic portico
set into semicircular archway; channelled rustication to
ground floor with keyed flat arches over metal casements;
similar 1st floor windows set in moulded stone architraves
with cornices and central segmental pediments; C20 2nd floor
windows set beneath moulded stone cornice and parapet.
Elevation to University Street terminated by pedimented blocks
with giant orders of Ionic pilasters set on rusticated ground
floor. Central projecting pedimented block with banded
quoining has giant order of Ionic half-columns set on 2
rusticated floors beneath; flat-roofed dormers to roof. Rear
elevation to Huntley Street with channelled rustication to 2
lower floors has dentilled cornice over central entrance bay
with Ionic portico set in cavetto-moulded semicircular arch;
square-headed cavetto-moulded window architraves above 2 bow
windows with Ionic columns.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ2953082185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477410
- 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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