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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Overview
- 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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Official list entry
- 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
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:
- NUMBERS 39-47 AND 49-62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39-47 AND 49-62, DOUGHTY 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 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))
GV II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477069
- 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
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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