Description

CAMDEN

TQ3081SW MACKLIN STREET
798-1/105/1095 (North side)
15/01/73 No.17A
St Giles's Almshouses and walls and
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
MACKLIN STREET
St Giles' Almshouses)

GV II

Quadrangle of 4 almshouses. Founded 1665, erected on this site
1790 and rebuilt 1885 by Edward Henry Burnell. Yellow stock
brick with red brick bands, strings and stone dressings.
Fishscale tile roofs with gables. Jacobean style. 2 ranges
forming 2 sides of quadrangle, 2 double fronted cottages in
each, all with 3 windows each. 2 storeys. Arched doorways with
dripmoulds with foliated labels, fanlights and ledged and
braced doors in slightly projecting gabled entrance bays with
oculus in the gable. Transom and mullion windows with C20
glazing. INTERIORS: simple.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached boundary walls with stone coping
surmounted by cast-iron railings. On wall at south end of
quadrangle of almshouses an inscribed York Stone tablet, dated
1790, recording former almshouses on the site; also a tablet
dated 1885 recording the rebuilding of the almshouses.

Listing NGR: TQ3036681361

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26406997

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)