Description

CAMDEN

TQ3082SE DOUGHTY STREET
798-1/96/309 (West side)
14/05/74 Nos.1-19 (Consecutive)
and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 19 houses. No.1, early C19; Nos 2-14, c1799-1800;
Nos 15-19, c1792. Terrace completed by 1820. Built by J Wigg,
G Slaton, J Wilson. Yellow stock brick with plain stucco band
at 1st floor sill level. Most with evidence of tuck pointing.
No.1: stucco ground floor with rusticated quoins. Plain stucco
3rd floor sill band. 4 storeys and basements. Double fronted
with 3 windows, splayed 1-window corner treatment and 1-window
return to Roger Street, plus single storey 7-window extension.
On left hand angle of splay, chimney-stack rising from ground
floor through the parapet. Projecting rusticated portico with
C20 round-arched doorway having a radial fanlight and panelled
door. Ground floor window on corner, round-arched; others with
architraves and keystones. 1st floor windows to Doughty Street
2-pane square-headed sashes in segmental-arched shallow
recesses. 2nd and 3rd floor windows with gauged brick flat
arches to recessed 2-pane sashes. Parapet. Cast-iron plaque on
return inscribed "St P x P 1821". INTERIOR: not inspected. Nos
2-5: Nos 3 & 4 now one house. Narrow 3rd floor sill cornice. 4
storeys and basements. 3 windows each. Projecting,
round-arched, rusticated porticoes with cornices and later C19
doorways; half glazed (patterned) doors and patterned
overlights. Doorway of No.4 replaced by a window. Gauged brick
flat arches to recessed 2-pane sashes. Parapets. Nos 4 and 5
with original lead rainwater heads. INTERIORS: not inspected
but No.5 noted to have stick baluster stair. Nos 6-19: slated
mansard roofs with dormers. No.10 probably refronted. 3
storeys, attics and basements. 3 windows each. Round-arched
doorways with panelled or recessed pilaster-jambs (Nos 9, 14 &
15 with attached columns), cornice-heads, most with patterned
fanlights, and panelled doors. Gauged brick flat arches to
recessed, mostly 2-pane, sashes. Nos 8 and 17 with cast-iron
balconies to 1st floor windows. Stucco cornices and blocking
courses, except Nos 17 & 18. Most houses have original lead
rainwater heads and pipes. INTERIORS: not inspected, but Nos
10, 11 and 12 noted to have stick baluster stair.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn
finials to areas.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.14 was the home of Sydney Smith,
clergyman, author and wit (LCC plaque).

(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood,
Parish of St Pancras IV: London: -1952: 50-54).

Listing NGR: TQ3075282184

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083538

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