Lindsey House and Attached Railings, Piers and Lamp Brackets
LINDSEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PIERS AND LAMP BRACKETS, 59 AND 60, LINCOLNS INN FIELDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1379333
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lindsey House and Attached Railings, Piers and Lamp Brackets
- Statutory Address:
- LINDSEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PIERS AND LAMP BRACKETS, 59 AND 60, LINCOLNS INN FIELDS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1379333
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lindsey House and Attached Railings, Piers and Lamp Brackets
- Statutory Address 1:
- LINDSEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PIERS AND LAMP BRACKETS, 59 AND 60, LINCOLNS INN FIELDS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LINDSEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PIERS AND LAMP BRACKETS, 59 AND 60, LINCOLNS INN FIELDS
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 30649 81338
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3081SE LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS
798-1/106/1060 (West side)
24/10/51 Nos.59 AND 60
Lindsey House and attached railings,
piers and lamp-brackets
(Formerly Listed as:
LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS
Nos.57-60 (Consecutive))
GV I
House. 1638-41 with alterations by Isaac Ware to form 2 houses
in 1751-2 and C20 alterations. Stuccoed front, partly painted,
with rusticated ground floor.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, basement and C20 attic with dormers. 5
windows. Coupled entrances with enriched consoles, pulvinated
frieze and cornice. Patterned arched fanlights. Architraved
windows, 1st floor with pulvinated frieze and pedimented
cornice, centre window with consoles and broken segmental
pediment with panel and festoon. Ionic pilasters through 1st
and 2nd floor between windows and on flanks. Entablature with
pulvinated frieze, modillion cornice and balustraded parapet.
INTERIOR: no original interiors remain. No.59 with moulded
balusters and carved ends to oak staircase. No.60 with C19
wrought-iron scroll topped square balusters to stone
staircase.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rusticated red brick piers flanking
entrance to combined forecourt with carved stone terminals;
piers linked to house by plain brick buttressed wall.
Cast-iron railings on parapet wall along frontage with
wrought-iron lamp brackets.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as the centrepiece of 'Arch Row' for
the gentleman-speculator William Newton. Variously attributed
to Inigo Jones, John Webb, Peter Mills and Nicholas Stone.
'Perhaps, historically, the most important single house in
London' (Sir John Summerson) as the model for the subsequent
development of London over two centuries. The wall surface
between the piers was originally of red brick.
(Survey of London: Vol. III, St Giles-in-the-Field, part I:
Lincoln's Inn Fields: London: -1912: 108-109; RCHME: Vol. II,
West London: London: -1935: 60; Summerson J: Architecture in
Britain 1530-1830: Harmondsworth: -1953: 164-166).
Listing NGR: TQ3065781322
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478712
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Summerson, J, Architecture in Britain 1530-1830, (1970)
Survey of London in The Parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields Part 1 Lincoln's Inn Fields: Volume 3 , (1912), 108-109
Other
Inventory of the historical monuments in London Volume 2 West London excluding Westminster Abbey, (1925)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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