NUMBERS 27-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 27-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 27-32, TORRINGTON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379012
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 27-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 27-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 27-32, TORRINGTON SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379012
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 27-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 27-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 27-32, TORRINGTON 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.

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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 27-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 27-32, TORRINGTON 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 29809 82106

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2982SE TORRINGTON SQUARE 798-1/94/1637 (East side) 28/03/69 Nos.27-32 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses. 1821-25. Built by James Sim, in partnership with James Sim Jnr and Robert Sim. Yellow stock brick with stucco ground floor and plain 1st floor sill band. 4 storeys and basements. 2 windows each. Nos 31 and 32 slightly projecting. Round-arched doorways with pilaster-jambs and cornice-heads, fanlights (Nos 28 & 29 radial patterned) and panelled doors. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sash windows with original glazing bars; to the 1st floor, continuous cast-iron balconies. Plain stucco 3rd floor sill band. Parapet. INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with acorn finials to areas. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.30 was the home of Christina Georgina Rossetti. (Hobhouse H: Thomas Cubitt; Master Builder: London: -1971: 85; Summerson J: Georgian London: London: -1945: 182-83).

Listing NGR: TQ2981282105

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Legacy System number:: 478376
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hobhouse, H, Thomas Cubitt Master Builder, (1971), 85
Summerson, J, Georgian London, (1945), 182,183

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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.