Numbers 21-39 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 21-39 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21-39, AMPTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246998
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 21-39 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 21-39 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21-39, AMPTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246998
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 21-39 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 21-39 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21-39, AMPTON STREET
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 21-39 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21-39, AMPTON 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 30669 82606
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3082NE AMPTON STREET
798-1/91/46 (South side)
25/10/71 Nos.21-39 (Odd)
and attached railings
GV II
Terrace of 10 houses. c1819-23. By Thomas Cubitt. Symmetrical
terrace with slightly projecting central block (Nos 27-33).
Nos 21-25 & 35-39: yellow stock brick and stucco ground floor
with plain stucco 1st floor sill band. 3 storeys and
basements. 2 windows each. Round-arched ground floor openings.
Doorways with pilaster-jambs, cornice-heads, fanlights (No.37
radial patterned) and panelled doors. Nos 23 & 37 ground floor
sashes with pointed lights. Upper floors with gauged brick
arches to recessed sashes; 1st floor No.35 with cast-iron
balconies. Parapets; Nos 35-39 stuccoed. Nos 27-33: stucco
with plain 1st floor band. 3 storeys and basements. 1 window
each, upper floors in slightly projecting bays. Round-arched
ground floor openings. Doorways with pilaster-jambs,
cornice-heads, Nos 29-33 patterned fanlights, and panelled
doors. No.33 ground floor sash with pointed lights. 1st floor
windows of 4 lights, with cast-iron balconies, in shallow,
segmental-arched recesses. 2nd floor, tripartite sashes in
shallow, segmental-arched recesses. Parapets.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn
finials to areas. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.33 was the home of
Thomas Carlyle (LCC plaque).
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood,
Parish of St Pancras IV: London: -1952: 63).
Listing NGR: TQ3066982606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476609
- 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), 63
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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