8-15, Old Square and attached railings

8-15, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379314
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: 8-15, Old Square and attached railings
Statutory Address:: 8-15, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379314
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: 8-15, Old Square and attached railings
Statutory Address 1:: 8-15, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 8-15, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn

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 31039 81459

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/07/2018

TQ3081SE 798-1/106/1029

CAMDEN LINCOLN'S INN (north-west side), Old Square, Nos. 8-15 (consec) and attached railings

14/05/74

GV II Eight terraced chambers. Nos 8-10 1874 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, Nos.11-15 1878-86 by J. Oldrid Scott, all in Tudor style. Red brick with blue diapers and stone dressings. Slate roofs with tall decorative brick chimney pots, No.13 with a pyramid roof over one bay. Stone plinth moulding at ground floor level. Four storeys.

Entrances of square headed and moulded arch types, No.15 with lamp over, approached by steps with solid brick balustrades with moulded capping. Nos. 8-13 with moulded stone drip strings at floor levels. Square headed transom and mullion windows, Nos. 8-10 with cusped ogee tracery and cusped lancets, some forming bays. No.15 with enriched terracotta aprons to first, second and third floor windows. Those above the entrance with geometrical tracery. Nos. 8-11 with cornice at third floor with enriched band below. Embattled parapets with gables capped by finials. Lead rainwater heads and pipes.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas.

Listing NGR: TQ3103981459

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 478690
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London North, (1998), 286-7

Legal

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