St Martin in the Fields Almshouses, Numbers 1-9
ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES, NUMBERS 1-9, BAYHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272268
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St Martin in the Fields Almshouses, Numbers 1-9
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES, NUMBERS 1-9, BAYHAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272268
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St Martin in the Fields Almshouses, Numbers 1-9
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES, NUMBERS 1-9, BAYHAM 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:
- ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES, NUMBERS 1-9, BAYHAM 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 29081 83781
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2983NW BAYHAM STREET
798-1/77/60 (East side)
14/05/74 St Martin-in-the-Fields Almshouses,
Nos.1-9 (consec)
GV II
Terraced almshouses. 1817-18. By Henry Hake Seward. For the
Parish of St Martin-in-the Fields. Built by J Tomling. Yellow
stock brick and slate roofs.
Symmetrical 2 storey terrace. Projecting, pedimented centre
(No.5) having 3 windows. Flanking houses, 2 windows each (1
blind). Centre with pink granite columns having foliated
capitals and shaped imposts with trefoil enrichment supporting
shallow slated roof over entrance and flanking canted bays.
Panelled doors under toplights in plain surrounds. Recessed
4-pane sashes, ground floor bays with gauged red brick flat
arches. Oval blind oculus in tympanum. Flanking houses with
square-headed doorways, fanlights and panelled doors. Gauged
brick flat arches to recessed 4-pane sashes, those above
entrances being blind. Slab chimney-stacks rise from party
walls. Original, shaped cast-iron rainwater heads.
INTERIOR: several interiors now opened up.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the almshouses were erected to house up to 70
poor widows or spinsters of the parish of St
Martins-in-the-Fields. St Martin-in-the-Fields Almshouses and
Chapel (qv), form a group.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, St
Pancras part IV: London: -1952: 136).
Listing NGR: TQ2908183781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476638
- 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), 136
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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