Description

TQ 2781 SW and CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALBION STREET W2 2780 NW 53/50 ;66/4 Nos 1 to 23 (consec.) 9.1.70 GV II

Range of terraced houses. c.1830-35, some alterations. Probably by George Gutch. Brown brick with channelled stuccoed ground floors, slate roofs. 4 storeys and basements. Each front 2 windows wide. Entrances principally to right hand of fronts. Semicircular arched doorways with panelled doors and patterned fanlights. Recessed sash windows, a few with glazing bars, those on upper floors under flat gauged arches. Platband finishing off stucco ground floors, 3rd floor sill band and stucco cornices with blocking courses. Cast iron geometric patterned 1st floor balconies. Cast iron spear head railings. Part of the early phase of the Tyburnia development planned by S. P. Cockerell in 1827 for the Bishop of London's Estate (Church Commissioners), but laid out to a modified plan by Cockerell's successor George Gutch.

"The History of Tyburnia"; G. Toplis, Country Life 15, 22 November 1973

Listing NGR: TQ2728781005

External Links

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)