Description

CAMDEN

TQ2883NE GLOUCESTER CRESCENT
798-1/76/557 (East side)
Nos.1 AND 2

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses at the top of a crescent. c1845.
By Henry Bassett. Yellow stock brick with stucco dressings.
Tiled pitched roof with central enriched slab chimney-stack
and similar smaller lateral stack; projecting eaves supported
on large shaped brackets with plain band. 2 storeys and
semi-basements. 2 windows each and recessed 2-window 2 storey
flanking entrance bays. Entrances have stucco surrounds with
pilasters supporting architraved round-arched heads; panelled
doors with pilasters jambs and fanlights. Recessed sashes.
Central bays, ground floor with stucco architraves and
baseless pediments on shaped brackets; geometrically patterned
timber balconies. 1st floor sashes architraved with bracketed
sills. INTERIORS: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Bassett's family were surveyors to the
Southampton Estate and bought the Gloucester Crescent plot
from Lord Southampton in 1840.

Listing NGR: TQ2867283699

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084521

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2