Charles Dickens House and Attached Railings
CHARLES DICKENS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 48, DOUGHTY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1356735
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Charles Dickens House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CHARLES DICKENS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 48, DOUGHTY STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1356735
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Charles Dickens House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARLES DICKENS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 48, 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:
- CHARLES DICKENS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 48, 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 30780 82201
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3082SE DOUGHTY STREET
798-1/96/312 (East side)
10/06/54 No.48
Charles Dickens' House and attached
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
DOUGHTY STREET
Nos.39-62 (Consecutive))
GV I
Terraced house. c1807-9. Darkened stock brick with slate
mansard roof and dormer. Plain stucco 1st floor sill band. 3
storeys, attic and basement. 3 windows. Round-arched doorway
with stucco surround, pilaster-jambs, cornice-head, fanlight
and panelled door. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed
sashes; ground floor with louvred shutters, 1st floor with
cast-iron balconies. Stucco cornice and blocking course.
Original lead rainwater head and pipe.
INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached
cast-iron railings with urn finials to areas.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this house was between 1837 and 1839 the home
of Charles Dickens (LLC plaque) and is now a house museum: it
is listed Grade I for this reason.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood,
Parish of St Pancras IV: London: -1952: 50-54).
Listing NGR: TQ3078282203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477070
- 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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