WILLING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL WITH RAILINGS

WILLING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL WITH RAILINGS, 356-364, GRAYS INN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113190
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: WILLING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: WILLING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL WITH RAILINGS, 356-364, GRAYS INN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113190
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: WILLING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: WILLING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL WITH RAILINGS, 356-364, GRAYS INN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WILLING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL WITH RAILINGS, 356-364, GRAYS INN ROAD

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 30491 82936

Details

CAMDEN

TQ3082NW GRAY'S INN ROAD 798-1/90/654 (East side) 14/05/74 Nos.356-364 (Even) Willing House & attached wall with railings

II

Offices. 1909. By Alfred Hart and Leslie Waterhouse. For Messrs Willing Advertising. Carving by William Aumonier. Red brick with stone dressings and 1st floor band. Stone 2nd floor and right hand bay. Steeply pitched slated mansard roofs with dormers. Windows with small leaded panes. STYLE: French Baroque. EXTERIOR: irregular facade of 3 storeys and attics, 5 storeys right hand bay. Left hand 3 bays forming a slightly projecting pavilion with round-arched central main entrance. Pilasters flanking entrance surmounted by large winged lions supporting a great 7-light bowed window with enriched apron, segmental headed lights and pilasters supporting a cornice and domed roof in an arched recess. To either side, transom and mullion casements with aprons; 1st floor with segmental-arched enrichment with small keystones. 2nd floor with paired stone Ionic columns to outer bays, flanking 2-light windows and supporting a modillion entablature with round-arched balustrade (piers with swags and features terminating in balls) over. Central dormer with transom and mullion casement flanked by scrolled consoles. Roof surmounted by a statue of Mercury. Central block of 3 windows, casements to ground floor and 2nd floor (3-light centre flanked by two 2-light), 1st floor round-arched with keystones and aprons. Entablature. Central gable with scrolled consoles flanked by 2 stepped gables. Projecting single right hand bay with arched vehicle entrance to courtyard, flanked by carved tablets. Canted oriel window above the entrance with 3 round-arched lights with keystones and attached columns supporting an entablature and pediment. Above this, a 3-light casement window and entablature. Entablature surmounted by a Venetian window type feature and a round-arched balustrade around the top of the bay (piers with features terminating in balls). Rising from the top of the bay, a rectangular lantern with round-arched openings, pilasters and a projecting cornice, broken back at the angles. Pointed roof terminating in a ball finial. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached stone wall and piers with low cast-iron railings.

Listing NGR: TQ3049182936

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Legacy System number:: 477615
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.