Numbers 1-29 and Attached Screen
NUMBERS 1-29 AND ATTACHED SCREEN, 1-29, SICILIAN AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378665
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-29 and Attached Screen
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1-29 AND ATTACHED SCREEN, 1-29, SICILIAN AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378665
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-29 and Attached Screen
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1-29 AND ATTACHED SCREEN, 1-29, SICILIAN AVENUE
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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 1-29 AND ATTACHED SCREEN, 1-29, SICILIAN AVENUE
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 30440 81615
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW SICILIAN AVENUE
798-1/100/1439 (South side)
14/05/74 Nos.1-29 (Odd)
and attached screen
GV II
Shopping parade with offices (formerly flats) over. 1906-10.
By RJ Worley. For the Bedford Estate. Red brick with white
terracotta dressings and 1st floor.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys 14 1/2 window bays plus a projecting oriel
on return to Bloomsbury Square with 2 bays. Ground floor with
later C20 shopfronts separated by Corinthian columns on
plinths carrying an entablature with plain terracotta frieze
at 2nd floor level. Pilasters at either end. 1st floor with 4
and 2-light square-headed casement windows with mullions plus
an oriel window on the 4th bay in from Southampton Row. 2nd,
3rd and 4th floors with canted transom and mullion bay
windows, flanked by 2-light transom and mullion windows and
bowed oriel windows rising from the 2nd floor. End bays with
2-light windows. All windows with small leaded panes, some
with shields. Projecting oriel of 7 lights, with transoms and
mullions, from 2nd to 4th floor. Beneath, an arched entrance
with 4 large brackets supporting a cornice over. Projecting
modillion cornice surmounted by a balustrade. Tall slab
chimneys.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
Attached to No.29 is a screen across the Avenue. 2 Ionic
columns on plinths carrying an entablature with the words
"Sicilian Avenue" on the frieze, surmounted by a balustrade
with urns on the 2 central piers.
Nos 1-29 (odd) Sicilian Avenue form a homogeneous development
with Nos 6-20 (even) Sicilian Avenue (qv), Nos 15-23 (odd)
Southampton Row (qv), Nos 25-35 (odd) and 35A Southampton Row
(qv) and Nos 1-6 Vernon Place (qv).
(Harwood E & Saint A: Exploring England's Heritage, London:
-1991: 211-12).
Listing NGR: TQ3044681612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477999
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harwood, , Saint, , Exploring England's Heritage London, (1991), 211,212
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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