NUMBERS 131-137 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 131-137 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 131-137, WHITFIELD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379191
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 131-137 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 131-137 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 131-137, WHITFIELD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379191
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 131-137 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 131-137 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 131-137, WHITFIELD STREET

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 131-137 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 131-137, WHITFIELD STREET

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 29227 82148

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2982SW WHITFIELD STREET 798-1/93/1719 (West side) 14/05/74 Nos.131-137 (Odd) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses and shops. Late C18, altered. Multi-coloured stock brick with later patching. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and basements or cellars. 2 windows each. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sashes. Parapets. No.131: wooden double shopfront, restored and altered, having small panes to windows and central double part-glazed doors and inswept frieze with modillion cornice. Square-headed house door to right with fanlight and panelled door. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas. No.133: round-arched doorway with radial fanlight. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas. Mostly rebuilt late C20; included for group value. No.135: wooden double shopfront with pilasters having palm leaf capitals carrying entablature with dentil cornice. Segmental bowed shopfront with panelled risers. Rectangular fanlight with radial pattern to central shop doorway; house doorway, to left, has 6-panelled door and overlight. No.137: wooden double shopfront, restored and altered, having C20 segmental-arched shop window glazing above original panelled risers and original entablature with dentil cornice and one remaining elaborate stucco console with winged human mask and rosette stop above. Central shop doorway panelled and part margin-glazed with overlight. House doorway with overlight to left, now blocked but overlight originally with cast-iron relief Classical lamp. INTERIORS not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: these houses and shops are, with Nos 159 and 161 Whitfield Street (qv), the only original buildings to survive of a terraced street, all with early shopfronts, associated with the former Fitzroy Market. (Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 30-31).

Listing NGR: TQ2923182139

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Legacy System number:: 478558
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), 30,31

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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.