Great Northern Hotel and Attached Railings
GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PANCRAS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113244
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Great Northern Hotel and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PANCRAS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113244
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Great Northern Hotel and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PANCRAS ROAD
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:
- GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PANCRAS 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 30178 83017
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3083SW PANCRAS ROAD
798-1/85/1266 (East side)
06/07/84 Great Northern Hotel and attached
railings
GV II
Hotel. 1854, by Lewis Cubitt. Yellow stock brick with stucco
dressings. Slate roof with pedimented dormers. Crescent shaped
building. Concave main facade towards King's Cross Station,
Euston Road (qv).
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys, attic and basement. 18 windows wide;
southern return 5 windows with slightly advanced central bay.
Sixth and thirteenth bays slightly advanced with tripartite
windows and stucco dressings; 1st and 2nd floors, triangular
pediments and segmental pediments respectively. Below that to
left hand side, the main entrance with cast-iron and wood
portico; round-arched glazing. Round-arched ground floor
openings with stucco keystones and impost bands. Plain stucco
bands at 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floor levels. Other windows
square-headed, 1st to 3rd floor with stucco architraves.
Modillion cornice. Prominent slab chimney-stacks. Road facade
similar.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings of geometric
design to areas.
HISTORICAL NOTE: curved plan reflects the original alignment
of Pancras Place, now Pancras Road. The hotel was one of the
first to include rooms on the "continental system" with
bedrooms en suite with sitting rooms. The company prided
itself on the fireproof construction of the hotel, with thick
walls dividing every room and with the corridors constructed
of brick arches supported by iron girders.
(Hunter M and Thorne R (eds.): Change at King's Cross: London:
-1990: 77-79).
Listing NGR: TQ3017883017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hunter, M, Thorne, R, Change at Kings Cross, (1990), 77,78,79
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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