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Numbers 13-24 and Attached Railings the Diorama, Bedford College Annexe

A Grade I Listed Building in Regent's Park, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5247 / 51°31'28"N

Longitude: -0.1452 / 0°8'42"W

OS Eastings: 528769

OS Northings: 182273

OS Grid: TQ287822

Mapcode National: GBR C7.KM

Mapcode Global: VHGQS.FYL1

Plus Code: 9C3XGVF3+VW

Entry Name: Numbers 13-24 and Attached Railings the Diorama, Bedford College Annexe

Listing Date: 14 May 1974

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1322054

English Heritage Legacy ID: 477715

Also known as: 13-24 Park Square East

ID on this website: 101322054

Location: Regent's Park, Camden, London, NW1

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Regent's Park

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Marylebone

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description



CAMDEN

TQ2882SE PARK SQUARE EAST
798-1/92/1279 (East side)
14/05/74 Nos.13-24 (Consecutive)
and attached railings

GV I

Includes: The Diorama, Bedford College Annexe PETO PLACE.
Terrace of 12 houses, the northern most bay forming part of
No.1 St Andrew's Place (qv). c1823-5. By John Nash. Nos 13-16
and Nos 20-24 converted to flats c1986, many original interior
features destroyed. Stucco and slated mansard roofs with
dormers.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical terrace, 3 bays at either end and centre
7 window bays projecting. Projecting bays 4 storeys, and
basements; otherwise, 3 storeys, attics and basements. 3
windows each. Ground floor with attached Ionic order
supporting an entablature surmounted by a continuous cast-iron
balcony (the northern most projection without railings).
Square-headed doorways with architraves, cornices,
pilaster-jambs carrying cornice-heads and patterned fanlights
(except Nos 16, 19, 21, and 23) and panelled doors.
Architraved sash windows with cornices and some glazing bars.
1st floor windows arcaded with keystones, archivolts and
moulded imposts. 2nd floor sill band. Dentil cornice at 3rd
floor with attic storeys over centre and end bays and
balustraded parapets between.
INTERIORS: with stone stairs, cast-iron, foliated balusters
and wreathed wood handrails. Some panelled rooms; most with
enriched ceiling cornices and central roundels. Rear ground
floor room of No.24 with good vaulted and moulded ceiling,
roundels of Classical figures, pilasters and pedimented mirror
over original fireplace.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn
finials to areas.
No.18 incorporates at the rear, in Peto Place, a 3 storey,
altered, polygonal building in brick with stone capped
buttresses between round-arched 2nd floor windows. This was
the Diorama, a picture show designed by Augustus Charles Pugin.
By 1854 it had been converted into a Baptist Chapel which
closed 1922 when the Middlesex Hospital used it for a
rheumatism treatment pool. An arts co-operative at time of
inspection in 1989.


CAMDEN

TQ2882SE PETO PLACE
798-1/92/1279 The Diorama, Bedford College Annexe
14/05/74

GV I

See under: Nos.13-24 and attached railings PARK SQUARE EAST.


Listing NGR: TQ2876982269

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