Numbers 52-60 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 52-60 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 52-60, RUSSELL SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246150
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 52-60 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 52-60 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 52-60, RUSSELL SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246150
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 52-60 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 52-60 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 52-60, RUSSELL SQUARE
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:
- NUMBERS 52-60 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 52-60, 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 30218 81913
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW RUSSELL SQUARE
798-1/100/1421 (South side)
28/03/69 Nos.52-60 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
GV II
Terrace of 9 houses. c1800-03. By James Burton, altered c1898
by PE Pilditch. Multi-coloured stock brick with rusticated
stucco ground floors. Later terracotta dressings. Slated
mansard roofs with dormers. Symmetrical terrace with
projecting end bays (Nos 52 and 60) and central bays (Nos 55,
56 and 57).
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attics and basements. Projecting bays 4
storeys. 3 windows each. No.52, 4 window (blind) return to
Bedford Place and single storey, 5 window, 1 door stuccoed
extension. Round-arched doorways with pilaster-jambs, cornice
heads, fanlights, sidelights and double panelled doors; Nos
52, 55, 57 and 60 with terracotta surrounds. Recessed,
architraved, mostly casement windows; 1st floor with cornices
and central window of each bay pedimented. No.56 with
semicircular pediment; Nos 55 and 57 with pedimented, canted
bay windows. Continuous cast-iron balconies to 1st floor
casements. Projecting bays with 3rd floor cornice and enriched
frieze below. Parapets. Dormers with terracotta cornices and
alternating triangular and semicircular pediments; Nos 53, 54,
58 and 59 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 to these houses following the building of The
Russell Hotel (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ3021881913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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