EIGHTEEN LAMP POSTS ON THE FORECOURT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

EIGHTEEN LAMP POSTS ON THE FORECOURT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, GREAT RUSSELL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130405
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: EIGHTEEN LAMP POSTS ON THE FORECOURT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Statutory Address:: EIGHTEEN LAMP POSTS ON THE FORECOURT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, GREAT RUSSELL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130405
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: EIGHTEEN LAMP POSTS ON THE FORECOURT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Statutory Address 1:: EIGHTEEN LAMP POSTS ON THE FORECOURT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, GREAT RUSSELL STREET

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:: EIGHTEEN LAMP POSTS ON THE FORECOURT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, GREAT RUSSELL 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 30131 81628

Details

CAMDEN

TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET 798-1/100/698 (North side) 14/05/74 Eighteen lamp posts in the forecourt of the British Museum

GV II

18 lamp posts. Mid C19. Elaborate cast-iron lamp posts of Rochester type with ladder bars. On stone plinths, the 4 opposite the portico having 3 globes each.

Listing NGR: TQ3013181628

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Legacy System number:: 477884
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.