NUMBERS 1-29 AND ATTACHED SCREEN

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:: 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

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.

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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 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

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Sources

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Harwood, , Saint, , Exploring England's Heritage London, (1991), 211,212

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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.