1, 3 AND 5, BLOOMSBURY STREET
1, 3 AND 5, BLOOMSBURY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244459
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 3 AND 5, BLOOMSBURY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, 3 AND 5, BLOOMSBURY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244459
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 3 AND 5, BLOOMSBURY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, 3 AND 5, BLOOMSBURY STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1, 3 AND 5, BLOOMSBURY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30032 81453
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3081SW BLOOMSBURY STREET
798-1/105/108 (West side)
30/01/73 Nos.1, 3 AND 5
GV II
Terrace of 3 houses with later shops. c1766-67, fronts altered
c1845. Built by J Medlam & altered by HW Cooper. Stucco.
3 storeys, attic and cellars. 3 windows each, No.5 with
5-window return (mostly blind) and 2 storeys, 1 window
entrance addition, to Streatham Street. Recessed sash windows
with some original glazing bars, secondary cornice at 3rd
floor level, cornice and blocking course.
No.1: rusticated ground floor with round-arched doorway,
fanlight and panelled door. Architraves to windows,
round-headed openings ground floor, consoles and pediments
(centre segmental) 1st floor. INTERIOR: not inspected but
noted to retain marble mantlepieces and Adam style ceiling on
the 1st floor. Square panelling and C18 fireplaces 2nd floor.
No.3 later C19 ground floor shop. Lugged architraves to 1st
floor windows. INTERIOR: not inspected.
No.5: later C19 stucco ground floor shopfront with attached
Ionic columns carrying entablature with console-bracketed
cornice. Lugged architraves to 1st floor windows, each with
wrought-iron balcony. Return of multi-coloured stock brick
with plain stucco band at 1st floor level; windows with gauged
red brick arches; attached cast-iron railings. INTERIOR: not
inspected but noted to have square balusters and shaped ends
to stairs on upper floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.5 was the home from 1766-1771 of Paul
Saunders, tapestry-maker, whose commercial premises lay at the
rear (Nos 2 & 4 Streatham Street, now demolished). The houses
originally formed part of a longer terrace demolished for the
construction of New Oxford Street, at which time the fronts
were altered.
Listing NGR: TQ3003281453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476738
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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