48 TO 54 (WARDONIA HOTEL) AND 56 TO 58, ARGYLE STREET, AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

56-58, ARGYLE STREET, LONDON, WC1H 8ER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244682
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: 48 TO 54 (WARDONIA HOTEL) AND 56 TO 58, ARGYLE STREET, AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: 56-58, ARGYLE STREET, LONDON, WC1H 8ER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244682
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: 48 TO 54 (WARDONIA HOTEL) AND 56 TO 58, ARGYLE STREET, AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: 56-58, ARGYLE STREET, LONDON, WC1H 8ER
Statutory Address 2:: WARDONIA HOTEL, 48-54, ARGYLE STREET, LONDON, WC1H 8ER

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

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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:: 56-58, ARGYLE STREET, LONDON, WC1H 8ER
Statutory Address:: WARDONIA HOTEL, 48-54, ARGYLE STREET, LONDON, WC1H 8ER

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 30312 82731

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/08/2017

TQ3082NW 798-1/90/54

CAMDEN ARGYLE STREET (South side) Nos.48-54 (even) (Wardonia Hotel), and Nos 56 and 58, and attached railings

(Formerly listed as Nos.48-58 (Even) and attached railings)

14/05/74

GV II Terrace of six houses, Nos. 48-54 now a hotel. c1839-49. Yellow stock brick. Nos. 48-52 with channelled cement ground floors; No.54, painted ground floor. Nos. 48-54 with slated mansard roofs and dormers. Three storeys, Nos. 48-54 with attics, and basements. Two windows each. Round-arched ground floor openings. Doorways, Nos. 48-52 with cement surrounds; Nos. 54-58 with stucco surrounds; pilaster-jambs, cornice-heads, fanlights (Nos. 56 and 58 patterned) and panelled doors. Ground floor windows with margin lights except Nos. 56 and 58 with intersecting tracery. Upper floors with gauged brick flat arches to recessed sashes. Parapets.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn finials to areas. (Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, Parish of St Pancras IV: London: 1952: 106).

Listing NGR: TQ3031282731

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Legacy System number:: 476618
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), 106

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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.