Description

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TQ2982NE WOBURN WALK
798-1/89/1733 (North side)
10/06/54 Nos.1-9 AND 9A (Odd)
(Formerly Listed as:
WOBURN WALK
Nos.1-9 (odd), Nos.4-18 (even) incl.
4A, 6A, 8A, 10A, 12A, 14A, 16A, 18A)

GV II*

Terrace of 6 shops with accommodation over. c1822. Built by
Thomas Cubitt, restored late C20. Stucco with wooden
shopfronts.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. 1 window each. Party walls of
upper floors articulated by narrow recessed bays. Wooden
shopfronts, much restored, with pilasters carrying continuous
entablature with anthemion and palmette ornament to
architrave; projecting, bracketed shop windows with rounded
angles and small panes flanked by panelled and half-glazed
doors with overlights. Upper floors have segmental-arched
windows having plain architraves studded with paterae; 1st
floor, 4 lights with cast-iron balconies, 2nd floor
tripartite. Parapets with plain bands, Nos 3 & 5 having
shallow scrolled pediments above.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.5 was the home of William Butler Yeats,
Irish poet and dramatist (plaque). Thomas Cubitt was
responsible for the development of the Bedford Estate north
and east of Russell Square. The coherently designed group of
original shopfronts in Woburn Walk and Duke's Road (qqv) is an
exceptional architectural composition and survival.

Listing NGR: TQ2987682538

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548869

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