POWIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

POWIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 66, LINCOLNS INN FIELDS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1379336
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: POWIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: POWIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 66, LINCOLNS INN FIELDS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1379336
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: POWIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: POWIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 66, LINCOLNS INN FIELDS

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:: POWIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 66, 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 30618 81399

Details

CAMDEN

TQ3081SE LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS 798-1/106/1063 (South side) 24/10/51 No.66 Powis House and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS Nos.65 AND 66)

GV II*

House. c1685. Designed by William Winde. For the Marquis of Powis. Craftsman, A Jordan. Exterior rebuilt by Lutyens c1930 following C17 style. Interior from c1772 when the house was divided into two parts, probably by Thomas Leverton. Brown brick, red brick and stone dressings with rusticated stone quoins. Stone semi-basement, bands to each floor, dentil and modillion cornice. Tiled hipped roof with pedimented dormers and stone dressed chimney-stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and semi-basement. 7 windows with projecting, central, pedimented 3 window bay. 2-leaf entrance doors with flanking rusticated pilasters carrying entablature with open pediment; approached by twin quadrant flights of steps with wrought-iron railings and overthrow lamp-holder. Gauged flat brick arches to slightly recessed sash windows with exposed boxing; centre second floor window with stone architrave surmounted by stone cherubs holding cartouche. Window above with stone architrave. North end of house returned over arcade of brick arches on pavement to Remnant Street. INTERIOR: good, with C19 open well staircase, panelled rooms, enriched doorcases and other features. Only internal feature which might date to C17 is the carved marble chimney piece on the second floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn finials to cobbled forecourt. (RCHME: London, Vol. II, West London: London: -1925: 59-60; Survey of London: Vol. III, St Giles-in-the-Fields, part I, Lincoln's Inn Fields: London: 1912: 110-118).

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Legacy System number:: 478715
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Survey of London' in The Parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields Part 1 Lincoln's Inn Fields: Volume 3 , (1912), 110-118
Other
Inventory of the historical monuments in London Volume 2 West London excluding Westminster Abbey, (1925)

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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.