Description

CAMDEN

TQ2882NE CUMBERLAND PLACE
798-1/87/288 (East side)
14/05/74 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
and attached balustrades & railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CUMBERLAND PLACE
Nos.1-4 (Consecutive))
(Formerly Listed as:
CUMBERLAND PLACE
Railings to garden forecourt of
Nos.1-4 (consec))

GV I

Block of 4 houses giving impression of 1 large house. c1828.
By John Nash and possibly J Thomson. Stucco with brick rear
elevation. Slated mansard roof with dormers.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical block with main elevation to Regent's
Park but entrances on rear to Cumberland Place. 4 storeys,
attics and basements. 7 window range. Returns with 3 windows
and projecting semicircular bays rising to main cornice. Main
elevation with projecting end bays and central projecting
tetrastyle pedimented Corinthian portico, columns rising
through 1st and 2nd floors, ground floor forming a podium.
Corinthian pilasters to other bays, paired at projecting bays,
supporting the main entablature with projecting cornice at 3rd
floor level. Recessed sashes to ground, 2nd and 3rd floors.
1st floor with casements and cast-iron balconies. Cornice and
blocking course above 3rd floor. Rear elevation with
projecting end bays of 3 windows each, mostly blind. Entrances
in projecting stucco porticoes with pilasters carrying
entablature and blocking course; fanlights and panelled doors.
Nos 2 & 3 with attached cast-iron railings to areas and steps
flanking entrances.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached stone balustrades and plain
wrought-iron geometrical railings on low wall to garden
forecourt.
(Survey of London: Vol. XIX, Old St Pancras and Kentish Town
(St Pancras II): London: -1938: 118).

Listing NGR: TQ2872482949

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526544

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