Numbers 1-19 and Attached Railings, Doughty Street

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 May 2024 to add detail to the description and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ3082SE
798-1/96/309

DOUGHTY STREET, CAMDEN

Nos.1-19 (Consecutive) Doughty Street (West side) and attached railings

14/05/74

GV II

Terrace of 19 houses. No.1, early C19; Nos 2-14, c1799-1800; Nos 15-19, c1792. Terrace completed by 1820. Built by J Wigg, G Slaton, J Wilson.

Yellow stock brick with plain stucco band at 1st floor sill level. Most with evidence of tuck pointing.

No.1: stucco ground floor with rusticated quoins. Plain stucco 3rd floor sill band. 4 storeys and basements. Double fronted with 3 windows, splayed 1-window corner treatment and 1-window return to Roger Street, plus single storey 7-window extension. On left hand angle of splay, chimney-stack rising from ground floor through the parapet. Projecting rusticated portico with C20 round-arched doorway having a radial fanlight and panelled door. Ground floor window on corner, round-arched; others with architraves and keystones. 1st floor windows to Doughty Street 2-pane square-headed sashes in segmental-arched shallow recesses. 2nd and 3rd floor windows with gauged brick flat arches to recessed 2-pane sashes. Parapet. Cast-iron plaque on return inscribed "St P x P 1821". INTERIOR: not inspected.

Nos 2-5: Nos 3 & 4 now one house. Narrow 3rd floor sill cornice. 4 storeys and basements. 3 windows each. Projecting, round-arched, rusticated porticoes with cornices and later C19 doorways; half glazed (patterned) doors and patterned overlights. Doorway of No.4 replaced by a window. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed 2-pane sashes. Parapets. Nos 4 and 5 with original lead rainwater heads. INTERIORS: not inspected but No.5 noted to have stick baluster stair.

Nos 6-19: slated mansard roofs with dormers. No.10 probably refronted. 3 storeys, attics and basements. 3 windows each. Round-arched doorways with panelled or recessed pilaster-jambs (Nos 9, 14 & 15 with attached columns), cornice-heads, most with patterned fanlights, and panelled doors. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed, mostly 2-pane, sashes. Nos 8 and 17 with cast-iron balconies to 1st floor windows. Stucco cornices and blocking courses, except Nos 17 & 18. Most houses have original lead rainwater heads and pipes. INTERIORS: not inspected, but Nos 10, 11, 12 and 14 noted to have stick baluster stair. Information provided (2023) regarding No 14 indicates that internal features of note include the survival of the dividing wall between dining and breakfast rooms on the ground floor (bowed within the dining room, with a central buffet alcove), wheat-ear mouldings to the dining-room cornice, and the cellar, which retains wine bins with slate horizontals and York stone verticals; some chimneypieces survive within this house, of standard early-C19 reeding and roundel type.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn finials to areas.

HISTORICAL NOTE: No.14 was the home of Sydney Smith, clergyman, author and wit (LCC plaque).

Listing NGR: TQ3075282184

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

477067

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), 50,51,52
Survey of London in Survey of London - Kings Cross neighbourhood The Parish of St Pancras Part 4: Volume 24 , (1951), 53,54

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.