NUMBERS 44-49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 44-49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-49, RUSSELL SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246149
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 44-49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 44-49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-49, RUSSELL SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246149
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 44-49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 44-49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-49, RUSSELL SQUARE

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:: NUMBERS 44-49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-49, RUSSELL SQUARE

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 30130 81853

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CAMDEN

TQ3081NW RUSSELL SQUARE 798-1/100/1420 (South side) 28/03/69 Nos.44-49 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses, formerly a symmetrical terrace similar to Nos 52-60 (qv); with one surviving, projecting end bay (No.44) and central bays (Nos 47-49). c1800-03. By James Burton, altered c1898 by PE Pilditch. Multi-coloured stock brick with rusticated stucco ground floors and slated mansard roofs with dormers. Later terracotta dressings. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attics and dormers. Projecting bays 4 storeys. 3 windows each, No.44 with return of 4 blind windows to Montague Street. Round-arched doorways with pilaster-jambs, cornice-heads, fanlights, sidelights and double panelled doors; Nos 44, 47 and 48 with square-headed terracotta surrounds. Recessed, architraved casement and sash windows. 1st floor with cornices and central windows with pediments; Nos 47-49 central windows 3-light canted bays. Continuous cast-iron balconies to 1st floor windows. Projecting bays with 3rd floor cornice and enriched frieze below. Parapets. Dormers with terracotta cornices; projecting bays with alternating triangular and semicircular pediments, Nos 45 and 46 with semicircular pediments to centre dormers only. INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached mid C19 cast-iron railings to areas. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Duke of Bedford was inspired to add terracotta dressings to these houses following the building of The Russell Hotel (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ3012181843

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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.