The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1JD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271476
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Horse Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1JD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271476
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Horse Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1JD
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 Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1JD
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 30222 82095
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/08/2019
798-1/0/10179
BLOOMSURY
COLONNADE
The Horse Hospital
(Formerly listed as The Horse Hospital, 2 HERBRAND STREET)
20-JUN-01
II
Former stables. c.1890. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings, cast iron railings in front of ground floor windows, slate roof. Six window, two storey range to northern mews elevation with twin doors to east end; splayed north west corner; three storey return elevation to west with diapered brick ornament.
Ramped stairs of concrete leading down to sunken ground floor and up to first floor; unusual channelled concrete stable floors with stamped mark reading 'S. Ward & Co., George Street, London SW', carried on cast iron columns. Upper floor contains large former stable with open trussed roof carried on cast iron columns. Ancillary room with tongue and groove boarded panelling.
History: this site has had a long history of equestrian use since its initial construction by James Burton in 1794-97. It was occupied by veterinary surgeons and farriers before being used as a print shop until 1988.
The Horse Hospital is a rare survival of double-decker inner-city stables.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487549
- 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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