Description

CAMDEN

TQ2883NE GLOUCESTER CRESCENT
798-1/76/558 (East side)
23/03/98 Nos.3-22 (Consecutive)

GV II

Curved terrace of 20 houses. c1840-45. By Henry Bassett.
Yellow stock brick with stucco dressings. Slated hipped roofs
with enriched slab chimney-stacks and most with projecting
eaves having shaped brackets.
STYLE: Italianate style, different designs forming linked
groups.
EXTERIOR: 3 and 4 storeys, all with semi-basements. Continuous
cornice runs throughout terrace at 2nd floor sill level; all
with stucco architraved sashes, ground floors having console
bracketed cornices. Doors panelled, some part-glazed, all with
overlights.
Nos 3 & 4: entrances in stucco porticoes with moulded panels
and pilaster soffits having bracket capitals. No.3 has 4
storeys with blind boxes to 1st floor windows. No.4 has a
4-storey projecting tower with stucco ground floor and quoins;
ground and 1st floor tripartite sashes, 2nd floor with 2 small
windows flanked by large brackets to 3rd floor balcony having
pierced balustrade to 2 paired round-arched sashes.
Nos 5-7: round-arched entrances, in recessed bays, with stucco
pilasters supporting architraved heads. No.5 has large
brackets flanking 2 floor windows and continuing across
entrance bay of No.4.
Nos 8-11: form a symmetrical group with projecting flanking
towers having 3rd floor loggias with paired shaped brackets to
eaves. Doorways of Nos 8 & 11, in recessed bays, in
round-arched cases. Nos 9 & 10 in central bays with stucco
cases of pilasters supporting cornices; windows above doors
round-arched.
Nos 12-15: form a symmetrical group with a projecting
bracketed cornice above 2nd floor windows and central pediment
with acroterion flanked by parapet with balustraded panels.
Entrances to Nos 12 & 15 in recessed flanking entrance bays;
stucco pilasters cases with round arches flanked by enriched
brackets supporting cornices. Nos 13 & 14 in central bays with
stucco pilaster doorcases, No.14 with a pediment; round-arched
windows above doorways and at 2nd floor beneath pediment.
Nos 16-19: form a symmetrical group similar to Nos 8-11.
No.20: round-arched doorway and round-arched window above at
2nd floor level.
No.21: square-headed stucco entrance surround with

round-arched window above. To right, a tripartite sash.
No.22: partly rebuilt and altered with mansard roof to left
hand bays.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Henry Bassett's family were surveyors to the
Southampton Estate; the plot was purchased by Bassett from
Lord Southampton at the auction of his northern estate in
1840.

Listing NGR: TQ2871983836

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084522

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record