Numbers 54-58 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 54-58 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 54-58, BIRKENHEAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244501
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 54-58 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 54-58 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 54-58, BIRKENHEAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244501
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 54-58 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 54-58 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 54-58, BIRKENHEAD STREET
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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:
- NUMBERS 54-58 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 54-58, BIRKENHEAD 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 30355 82894
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3082NW BIRKENHEAD STREET
798-1/90/94 (West side)
14/05/74 Nos.54-58 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
GV II
Terrace of 5 houses, Nos 54-56 now hotels. c1834-49. Built by
W Forrester Bray, restored late C20. Yellow stock brick with
later patching. Nos 54 & 55, red brick parapets. No.56
painted. Stucco ground floors to Nos 54-56. Plain stucco 1st
floor sill bands. Slated mansard roofs with dormers.
Round-arched ground floor openings. No.54, single storey,
stucco portico extension on return; round-arched doorway with
fluted Doric three-quarter columns carrying cornice-head;
fanlight and panelled door. Nos 55-57, architraved doorways
with pilaster-jambs carrying cornice-heads with fanlights
(No.57 patterned); panelled doors (No.56 C20). No.58, doorway
with fluted Doric quarter columns carrying cornice; patterned
fanlight and panelled door. Gauged-brick flat arches to
recessed sashes; 1st floor in shallow arched recesses.
Cast-iron balconies to 1st floor windows. Parapets.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with bud and
other finials to areas.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood,
Parish of St Pancras IV: London: -1952: 109).
Listing NGR: TQ3035582894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476721
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - Kings Cross neighbourhood The Parish of St Pancras Part 4: Volume 24 , (1951), 109
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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