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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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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Official list entry

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

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Statutory Address:: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, NURSES HOME 1907 BUILDING AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GOWER STREET

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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

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.