1-9 AND 9A, WOBURN WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1379209
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: 1-9 AND 9A, WOBURN WALK
Statutory Address:: 1-9 AND 9A, WOBURN WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1379209
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: 1-9 AND 9A, WOBURN WALK
Statutory Address 1:: 1-9 AND 9A, WOBURN WALK

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:: 1-9 AND 9A, WOBURN WALK

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 29870 82530

Details

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TQ2982NE WOBURN WALK 798-1/89/1733 (North side) 10/06/54 Nos.1-9 AND 9A (Odd) (Formerly Listed as: WOBURN WALK Nos.1-9 (odd), Nos.4-18 (even) incl. 4A, 6A, 8A, 10A, 12A, 14A, 16A, 18A)

GV II*

Terrace of 6 shops with accommodation over. c1822. Built by Thomas Cubitt, restored late C20. Stucco with wooden shopfronts. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. 1 window each. Party walls of upper floors articulated by narrow recessed bays. Wooden shopfronts, much restored, with pilasters carrying continuous entablature with anthemion and palmette ornament to architrave; projecting, bracketed shop windows with rounded angles and small panes flanked by panelled and half-glazed doors with overlights. Upper floors have segmental-arched windows having plain architraves studded with paterae; 1st floor, 4 lights with cast-iron balconies, 2nd floor tripartite. Parapets with plain bands, Nos 3 & 5 having shallow scrolled pediments above. INTERIORS: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.5 was the home of William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist (plaque). Thomas Cubitt was responsible for the development of the Bedford Estate north and east of Russell Square. The coherently designed group of original shopfronts in Woburn Walk and Duke's Road (qqv) is an exceptional architectural composition and survival.

Listing NGR: TQ2987682538

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Legacy System number:: 478577
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.