Description

CAMDEN

TQ2883NE DELANCEY STREET
798-1/76/297 (North side)
14/05/74 Nos.40-60 (Even)
and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 11 houses, No.40 with a shop. Mid C19. Yellow stock
brick with rusticated stucco ground floors. Continuous stucco
cornice and blocking course; Nos 40, 50 and 60 cut back. Some
with mansard roofs and dormers. 3 storeys, attics and
basements. 2 windows each. Doorways have stucco pilasters
carrying entablature: pilaster-jambs carrying cornice-heads,
overlights and panelled doors. Architraved sashes, 1st floor
with console-bracketed cornices and cast-iron balconies. No.40
has a timber shopfront on a splayed corner with pilasters
carrying an entablature with projecting cornice; shop window
altered but having a panelled dado below. 2-window return.
INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached
cast-iron railings with cone finials to areas.
HISTORICAL NOTE: poet Dylan Thomas lived at No.54 in 1951-2
(GLC plaque); the garden had a Romany caravan.

Listing NGR: TQ2880483588

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26320211

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Recommended Books

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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide