ST PANCRAS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 1-13

ST PANCRAS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 1-13, SOUTHAMPTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378778
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: ST PANCRAS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 1-13
Statutory Address:: ST PANCRAS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 1-13, SOUTHAMPTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378778
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: ST PANCRAS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 1-13
Statutory Address 1:: ST PANCRAS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 1-13, SOUTHAMPTON ROAD

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:: ST PANCRAS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 1-13, SOUTHAMPTON ROAD

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:: TQ2784185035

Details

TQ2785SE 798-1/40/1475 14/05/74

CAMDEN SOUTHAMPTON ROAD (West side) St Pancras Almshouses Nos.1-13 (consec)

II

13 almshouses and committee room. Founded 1850 by Donald Fraser, MD and rebuilt 1859-63 by Henry Baker. Committee Room dated 1881. Yellow stock brick with red brick bands and diaper decoration. Slated roofs with cast-iron cresting, tall moulded brick chimney-stacks to each house and red brick dentil eaves treatment; No.13 with a fleche. EXTERIOR: 2 storey ranges round 3 sides of a courtyard; terminal houses (Nos 1 & 13), 2 storeys and gabled attics. Entrance to committee room in left hand corner, extending behind No.5. Nos 2-12, 2 windows each. Nos 1 & 13, both with 1 window projecting bays on road fronts, plus 1 window. Both with brick pointed arch porches in angles with main ranges; outer angles supported on columns and capitals. No.1 with bay windows at ground floor level. Main ranges have 5-centred arch doorways with panelled half glazed doors (2 pointed lights); bracketed gabled canopies with slate roofs and fleur-de-lys finials. Committee room entrance without canopy but having late C19 cast-iron bracket with C20 lamp. Windows to all houses gauged red and black brick 5-centred arches to recessed sashes of 2 pointed-head lights; windows over entrances similar but single light. INTERIORS: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2784185035

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Legacy System number:: 478132
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.