The Roundhouse
THE ROUNDHOUSE, CHALK FARM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1258103
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Roundhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROUNDHOUSE, CHALK FARM ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1258103
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Roundhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROUNDHOUSE, CHALK FARM ROAD
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:
- THE ROUNDHOUSE, CHALK FARM ROAD
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:
- TQ2825584318
Details
TQ2884SW
798-1/64/194
10/06/54
CAMDEN
CHALK FARM ROAD
(South West side)
The Roundhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
CHALK FARM ROAD
The Round House Theatre)
GV
II*
Formerly known as: Warehouse of W & A Gilbey Ltd CHALK FARM
ROAD.
Goods locomotive shed, now theatre. 1846-7. By Robert B
Dockray. For the London and North Western Railway. Built by
Branson & Gwyther. Converted for use as a theatre 1967 and
1985. Yellow stock brick. Low pitched conical slate roof
having a central smoke louvre, now glazed, and bracketed
eaves. Circular plan 48m in diameter. Buttresses with offsets
mark bays each having a shallow, recessed rectangular panel.
Former entrances and windows with round-arched heads.
INTERIOR: roof carried on 24 cast-iron Doric columns (defining
original locomotive spurs) and a framework of curved ribs.
Believed to retain original flooring, turn table and fragments
of early railway lines. Wooden gallery probably added by
Gilbeys, late C19.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the building did not last long as an engine
shed; by the 1860s the engines had become too long to be
turned and stored there so it was leased to W & A Gilbey Ltd
as a liquor store until converted to a theatre in the 1960s.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and
Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 114).
Listing NGR: TQ2825584318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476873
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood St Pancras Part 3: Volume 21, (1949), 114
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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