NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS INCLUDING CONNAUGHT HALL, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (NUMBERS 36-45)

NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS INCLUDING CONNAUGHT HALL, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (NUMBERS 36-45), 29-45, TAVISTOCK SQUARE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378967
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS INCLUDING CONNAUGHT HALL, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (NUMBERS 36-45)
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS INCLUDING CONNAUGHT HALL, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (NUMBERS 36-45), 29-45, TAVISTOCK SQUARE

User submitted image — Uploaded by Charles Watson This photo may not represent the current condition of the site. Almost 350,000 images and stories have been added to the Missing Pieces Project so far. Share your story.
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2004-09-05
Reference:: IOE01/13033/05
Rights:: © Mr David South. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378967
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS INCLUDING CONNAUGHT HALL, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (NUMBERS 36-45)
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS INCLUDING CONNAUGHT HALL, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (NUMBERS 36-45), 29-45, TAVISTOCK SQUARE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS INCLUDING CONNAUGHT HALL, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (NUMBERS 36-45), 29-45, TAVISTOCK SQUARE

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 29838 82313

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2982SE TAVISTOCK SQUARE 798-1/94/1595 (West side) 10/06/54 Nos.29-45 (Consecutive) and attached railings. Connaught Hall, University of London (36-45)

GV II*

Terrace of 17 houses. c1825-6. Designed by Lewis Vulliamy; built by G Anstey and JA Frampton. Darkened stock brick with stucco ground floors, Nos 29, 32, 35, 39, 43 and 45 rusticated. Slated roof, Nos 34-45 with C20 felted mansard and dormers. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, attics and basements. 3 windows each. Symmetrical facade, No.37 (centre house) slightly projecting with 4 engaged Ionic columns rising through 1st and 2nd floors; Nos 29, 31, 35, 39, 43 and 45 slightly project with Ionic pilasters through the 1st and 2nd floors. All to support the main entablature at 3rd floor level. Round-arched entrances with pilaster-jambs carrying cornice-heads; patterned fanlights and panelled doors. Doorways of Nos 36-40 and 42-44 converted for use as windows. Entrances to Nos 29 and 45 on the returns, No.45 with pilasters supporting a cornice, No.29 with portico surmounted by a balustrade with vases. Square-headed, recessed sashes to ground floors except No.37 with round-arched ground floor windows. 1st floor casements with cast-iron balconies. 2nd and 3rd floors with gauged brick flat arches to recessed sashes, most with glazing bars. Attic storey with pilaster strips above bays with pilasters. Cornice above attic storey except Nos 35-39 with balustraded parapets. The north return of No.29 continues the entablature and pilaster treatment and forms a balanced composition, linked by a low screen wall, with No.36 Gordon Square (qv). The south return of No.45 continues the entablature and pilaster treatment and is similarly linked by a screen wall with No.53 Gordon Square (qv). INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn finials to areas. No.36 was listed on 14/05/74. (Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 97-98).

Listing NGR: TQ2983282314

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 478330
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Survey of London' in Survey of London - Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood St Pancras Part 3: Volume 21, (1949), 97,98

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.