Numbers 24-29 and 31-37 Including Numbers 33A and 33B, Camden Town with Primrose Hill, London

Entry Name: Numbers 24-29 and 31-37 Including Numbers 33A and 33B

Listing Date: 14 May 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379381

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478760

ID on this website: 101379381

Location: Camden Town, Camden, London, NW1

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Camden Town with Primrose Hill

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Pancras Old Church

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description

CAMDEN

TQ2984SW LYME STREET
798-1/66/1086 (South side)
14/05/74 Nos.24-29 AND 31-37 (Consecutive)
including Nos.33A and B

GV II

Factory flanked by 12 paired workers' houses. 1852-1855. Grey
brick with yellow stock brick dressings.
EXTERIOR: No.31 (the factory): Classical style in brick. 4
storeys and semi-basement, 3-window centre flanked by 3
storeys and semi-basement, 2-window slightly recessed wings.
Central brick portico with rusticated pilasters carrying
entablature; doorway with fanlight and panelled door. Dentil
band at 1st floor level, continuing across flanking bays. 4
pilasters, flanking segmental-arched tripartite windows, rise
from 1st floor to terminate in dentil cornice capitals above
2nd floor windows, then continuing to simplified dentil
entablature with central portion of frieze stuccoed. 3rd floor
windows with stuccoed aprons. Brick dentil pediment with small
square-headed window in tympanum and bracketed stucco feature
on apex. Flanking wings with rusticated quoins to ground floor
being slightly wider than upper floors and connected at angle
with stucco bracket. Impression of pilasters given by dentil
cornice capitals between 2nd floor window arches. Dentil
enriched parapets with similarly enriched chimney-stacks on
return walls.
Nos 24-29 & 32-37 (workers' houses): 3 storeys and
semi-basements with 1 window each and 2 storey 1-window
entrance bays. Rusticated brick quoins and vertical recessed
strips articulating party walls. Round-arched doorways with
stucco keystones and impost bands, fanlights and panelled
doors. Single light round-arched sashes with stucco keystones
and impost bands at 1st floor level above doors. Ground floor
sashes of 3 round-arched lights, each with stucco impost bands
and central light with stucco keystone. Similar 2-light sashes
to upper floors (both lights with stucco keystones); 2nd floor
with narrower lights, breaking through the parapet with
Lombard type frieze to terminate in small gables. Nos 28, 29,
33a, 34, 35 & 36 with good cast-iron window guards to ground
floor.
INTERIORS: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2917984017

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