NUMBERS 39-47 AND 49-62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 39-47 AND 49-62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39-47 AND 49-62, DOUGHTY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1356734
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 39-47 AND 49-62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 39-47 AND 49-62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39-47 AND 49-62, DOUGHTY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1356734
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 39-47 AND 49-62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 39-47 AND 49-62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39-47 AND 49-62, DOUGHTY STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 39-47 AND 49-62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39-47 AND 49-62, DOUGHTY STREET

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 30786 82188

Details

CAMDEN

TQ3082SE DOUGHTY STREET 798-1/96/311 (East side) 14/05/74 Nos.39-47 AND 49-62 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: DOUGHTY STREET Nos.39-62 (Consecutive))

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Terrace of 23 houses, excluding No.48 which is listed separately (qv). Nos 39-46 c1792; Nos 47-62 c1807-9; terrace completed by 1820. No.62 rebuilt in facsimile since 1974. Built by J Wigg, G Slaton and J Wilson. Multi-coloured stock brick most with evidence of tuck pointing; No.45 painted. Plain stucco first-floor sill band. Slate mansard roofs with dormers except Nos 53-55 and 62. Nos 39-47, 49-52 and 56-61: three storeys, attics and dormers. Three windows each; No.39 with four windows (one blind) and three-window return to Guilford Street. Round-arched doorways with panelled or recessed pilaster-jambs, cornice-heads, most with patterned fanlights and panelled doors. Nos 44-47, 49, 51 and 52 have doorways with stuccoed surrounds; Nos 57-61, doorways with Greek Doric engaged columns carrying cornice heads with guttae. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed, mostly 2-pane sashes. Nos 49, 52, 56, 57 and 60 with cast-iron balconies to first-floor windows. Stucco cornices and blocking courses, except No.39. Most houses with original lead rainwater heads and pipes. INTERIORS: not inspected. Nos 53-55 and 62: four storeys and basements. Three windows each, No.62 with 3-window return to Roger Street, plus three-storey three-window extension. Nos 53-54, round-arched doorways with moulded jambs and lion-head stops, cornice-heads and patterned radial fanlights. No.55 has projecting round-arched, rusticated stucco portico with cornice and later C19 doorway. Patterned, half-glazed door and overlight. No.62 has return with projecting Doric porch, part-glazed doors and patterned fanlight. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sash windows; first-floor with cast-iron balconies. Cornice, continuing from other houses in terrace, at third-floor level. INTERIORS: not inspected but Nos 53-55 noted to have stick baluster stairs. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn finials to areas. (Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, Parish of St Pancras, IV: London: -1952: 50-54).

Listing NGR: TQ3077682208

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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

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.