Description

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TQ2982NE
798-1/89/1658

CAMDEN
UPPER WOBURN PLACE (West side)
Nos.17-18, Hilton Hotel London Euston and attached railings

(Formerly listed as UPPER WOBURN PLACE Cora Hotel and attached railings, and ENDSLEIGH GARDENS, Nos 1-3, Cora Hotel)

28/03/69

GV
II

Hotel, formerly a symmetrical terrace of five house-bays linked by a single storey extension to a terrace in Endsleigh Gardens, of which four house-bays survive (the corner block and former Nos 1-3 Endsleigh Gardens). c1824-25. Built by Thomas Cubitt. Restored 1989. Yellow stock brick and stucco ground floors with plain first floor band; end and central bays of terraces rusticated. Slated mansard roofs with dormers.

EXTERIOR: four storeys, attics and basements. House-bays with three windows each. The former one storey link has been built up to four storeys to match the terraces, but retains the stucco parapet at first floor level.

Upper Woburn Place terrace: house-bays projecting in progression towards the centre bay. Round-arched ground floor openings. All former doorways converted for use as windows except southernmost house with simplified pilaster-jambs, cornice-head, patterned fanlight and panelled door; centre bay with C20 hotel entrance and canopy. Central bay with four Corinthian columns, flanked by bays with pilasters, all rising through first and second floors to support the continuous stucco entablature at third floor level. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sash windows; first floor casements with continuous cast-iron balconies. Parapet above attic storey with plain stucco band.

Endsleigh Gardens terrace: projecting block at east end with three-window return to Upper Woburn Place. All former doorways converted for use as windows except westernmost house with round-arched doorway with simplified pilaster-jambs, cornice-head, patterned fanlight and panelled door; doorway of easternmost house with prostyle-in-antis Ionic portico with half glazed door and radial patterned fanlight. Projecting east block with paired Corinthian pilasters rising through first and second floors; return with two pilasters and paired pilasters at angles, the outer bays slightly projecting. One house-bay of former central composition at west end with pilasters rising through first and second floor. All carrying continuous stucco entablature at third floor level. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sash windows; projecting block tripartite. First floor casements with continuous cast-iron balconies; central window architraved with console bracketed pediment, flanked by casements with console bracketed cornices. At third floor level all pilasters carried up to stucco band on parapet with plain pilaster strips.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas with foliated and urn finials with scroll brackets.

(Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: 1949: 103).

Listing NGR: TQ2979782509

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086484

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)