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Latitude: 51.5211 / 51°31'16"N
Longitude: -0.1245 / 0°7'28"W
OS Eastings: 530218
OS Northings: 181913
OS Grid: TQ302819
Mapcode National: GBR J8.6W
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.S1K7
Plus Code: 9C3XGVCG+F6
Entry Name: Numbers 52-60 and Attached Railings
Listing Date: 28 March 1969
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1246150
English Heritage Legacy ID: 477921
ID on this website: 101246150
Location: Bloomsbury, Camden, London, WC1B
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Bloomsbury
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Bloomsbury Way St George
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW RUSSELL SQUARE
798-1/100/1421 (South side)
28/03/69 Nos.52-60 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
GV II
Terrace of 9 houses. c1800-03. By James Burton, altered c1898
by PE Pilditch. Multi-coloured stock brick with rusticated
stucco ground floors. Later terracotta dressings. Slated
mansard roofs with dormers. Symmetrical terrace with
projecting end bays (Nos 52 and 60) and central bays (Nos 55,
56 and 57).
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attics and basements. Projecting bays 4
storeys. 3 windows each. No.52, 4 window (blind) return to
Bedford Place and single storey, 5 window, 1 door stuccoed
extension. Round-arched doorways with pilaster-jambs, cornice
heads, fanlights, sidelights and double panelled doors; Nos
52, 55, 57 and 60 with terracotta surrounds. Recessed,
architraved, mostly casement windows; 1st floor with cornices
and central window of each bay pedimented. No.56 with
semicircular pediment; Nos 55 and 57 with pedimented, canted
bay windows. Continuous cast-iron balconies to 1st floor
casements. Projecting bays with 3rd floor cornice and enriched
frieze below. Parapets. Dormers with terracotta cornices and
alternating triangular and semicircular pediments; Nos 53, 54,
58 and 59 with semicircular pediments to centre dormers only.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached mid C19 cast-iron railings to
areas.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Duke of Bedford was inspired to add
terracotta to these houses following the building of The
Russell Hotel (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ3021881913
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