Number 99 and Attached Railings to Areas
NUMBER 99 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO AREAS, 99, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330376
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Number 99 and Attached Railings to Areas
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 99 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO AREAS, 99, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330376
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 99 and Attached Railings to Areas
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 99 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO AREAS, 99, GREAT RUSSELL 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:
- NUMBER 99 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO AREAS, 99, GREAT RUSSELL 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 29953 81530
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2981NE GREAT RUSSELL STREET
798-1/99/691 (North side)
24/10/51 No.99
and attached railings to areas
(Formerly Listed as:
GREAT RUSSELL STREET
Nos.98-102 (Consecutive))
GV II*
Terraced house. c1680-1700, refronted later C19. Stucco with
rusticated ground floor and rusticated quoin strip between
No.99 & 98 (qv). Bands at 1st and 3rd floor level.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and basement (4th storey a later
addition). 5 windows. Symmetrical front; square-headed
entrance with stone architraves, console bracketed
cornice-hood and double panelled doors with patterned
fanlight. Square-headed, recessed sash windows with exposed
boxing. Cornice and blocking course.
Rear elevation, apart from added top storey, retains its
original appearance. Plum coloured stocks with red dressings.
3 windows between closet wings which have their own north
windows at each floor and blind window recesses at the sides.
Windows and recesses with gauged flat arches except at
basement and top floor where they are cambered. Deep window
sills of stone except for the ground floor centre opening
below which the small set-forward of the basement storey is
raised to form a panel; this central window emphasised by a
stone bolection moulded architrave surmounted by a shaped
frieze and wood cornice.
INTERIOR: the plan of the interior is a prototype of the early
Georgian large town house. The 3-bay, front-lit, entrance hall
rises through the ground and 1st floor with the main stair of
3 flights set around a large well with the upper landing on
the east side. Stair with twisted balusters to a closed
string, with half balusters on the square newels and moulded
handrail. Chequered black and white marble hall floor. Ovolo
panelling in 4 heights with 2 heights and a dado rail to the
upper landing with box cornice. Central on north wall, an oval
window to the secondary stairs. Ceiling painting above stairs,
on plaster, depicting Bacchus and Ariadne, attended by 2
cupids, seen in the sky through an architectural margin
representing a cornice and consoles in perspective. Attributed
to Louis Cheron and unusual in a house of this type in London.
A secondary, dog-leg, staircase runs from the basement to 3rd
floor behind the main stair (and separated from it by a
panelled screen), lit by small light well at the rear. Twisted
balusters to a closed string with half balusters to the square
newels except in the 2 flights to the basement. Panelled dado
for full height. The ground floor back room (The Peacock Room)
extends the full width of the house and is lined with bold
raised bolection moulded panelling with dado rail and box
cornice. The rest of the house retains fine panelling and
features with minor alterations.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the house has been in professional use since
1820 when it was taken by the Regents Canal Company who may
have been responsible for the extra storey and re-fronting.
(RCHME: London, Vol. II, West London: London: -1925: 60).
Listing NGR: TQ2995281532
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477862
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the historical monuments in London Volume 2 West London excluding Westminster Abbey, (1925)
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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