Description

CAMDEN

TQ2983SW MORNINGTON CRESCENT
798-1/83/1153 (North West side)
14/05/74 Nos.25-35 (Consecutive)
and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 11 houses forming part of a crescent. c1821-32.
Built by I Bryant. For the Southampton Estate. End houses
stucco with rusticated ground floors; others yellow stock
brick (No.33 reddened) with rusticated stucco ground floors
and slate mansard roofs with segmental headed dormers (No.27,
square). Formerly symmetrical terrace with slightly projecting
end houses (Nos 25 & 26 and 35; No.36 replaced by C20 flats).
End houses 4 storeys and basements; others 3 storeys, attics
and basements. All with 2 windows each; No.25, 3 window
return. Round-arched ground floor openings; sashes of end
houses in shallow recesses. No.34 with pointed and margin
lights, No.35 with margin lights. Doorways mostly with 3/4
Doric columns carrying cornice-heads; fanlights (Nos 26, 27,
30-32 and 35, patterned) and panelled doors. No.25 with
prostyle portico on return. 1st floor casements with cast-iron
balconies; end houses with enriched architraves, except No.25.
End houses with enriched architraves to 2nd and 3rd floor
sashes, except No.25. Others with gauged brick flat arches to
sashes; No.29 with wooden architraves and 1st floor blind
boxes. Nos 26 and 35, cornices at 3rd floor level (No.25,
removed) and parapets above 3rd floor. Others, stucco blocking
courses, Nos 29, 31 and 34 retaining cornices.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn
finials to areas.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, Kings Cross Neighbourhood:
London: -1952: 132).

Listing NGR: TQ2906983332

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26407037

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)