Description

CAMDEN

TQ3081NW VERNON PLACE
798-1/100/1669 (North West side)
14/05/74 Nos.1-6 (Consecutive)
Avenue Chambers

GV II

Shopping parade with offices, formerly flats, over, forming
the north-west return to Sicilian Avenue (qv). 1906-10. By RJ
Worley. For the Bedford Estate. Red brick with white
terracotta dressings and 1st floor.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys and later C20 attic with dormers. 7 window
bays plus splayed left hand return and projecting oriel on
right hand return to Sicilian Avenue. Ground floor with
round-headed entrance to offices in central bay flanked by
later C20 shopfronts. Bays separated by Corinthian columns on
plinths carrying an entablature with plain terracotta frieze
at 2nd floor level. Pilasters at end bays. 1st floor with 4, 3
and 2-light square-headed casement windows except the entrance
bay with a 5-light oriel, the apron with wreath and swags
inscribed "Avenue Chambers". 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor with
2-light transom and mullion windows at either end, 4-light
canted bay windows with transom and mullions and in the
central entrance bay 4-light bow windows. Projecting oriel of
7 lights with transoms and mullions, from 2nd to 4th floor.
Beneath, an arched entrance with 4 large brackets supporting a
cornice over. All windows with small leaded panes, some with
shields. Modillion cornice surmounted by terracotta
balustrade, the central bay with a pedimented gable with
2-light transom and mullion window. To either side, tall slab
chimneys. Over the left hand splayed return, a domed
terracotta lantern.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
Nos 1-6 (consec) Vernon Place form a homogeneous development
with Nos 1-29 (odd) and 6-20 (even) Sicilian Avenue (qqv), Nos
15-23, 25-35 (odd) and 35A Southampton Row (qqv).

Listing NGR: TQ3045281648

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086510

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)