Description

CAMDEN

TQ3082SE DOUGHTY STREET
798-1/96/311 (East side)
14/05/74 Nos.39-47 AND 49-62 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
DOUGHTY STREET
Nos.39-62 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 23 houses, excluding No.48 which is listed
separately (qv). Nos 39-46 c1792; Nos 47-62 c1807-9; terrace
completed by 1820. No.62 rebuilt in facsimile since 1974.
Built by J Wigg, G Slaton and J Wilson. Multi-coloured stock
brick most with evidence of tuck pointing; No.45 painted.
Plain stucco first-floor sill band. Slate mansard roofs with
dormers except Nos 53-55 and 62.
Nos 39-47, 49-52 and 56-61: three storeys, attics and dormers.
Three windows each; No.39 with four windows (one blind) and
three-window return to Guilford Street. Round-arched doorways
with panelled or recessed pilaster-jambs, cornice-heads, most
with patterned fanlights and panelled doors. Nos 44-47, 49, 51
and 52 have doorways with stuccoed surrounds; Nos 57-61,
doorways with Greek Doric engaged columns carrying cornice
heads with guttae. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed,
mostly 2-pane sashes. Nos 49, 52, 56, 57 and 60 with cast-iron
balconies to first-floor windows. Stucco cornices and blocking
courses, except No.39. Most houses with original lead
rainwater heads and pipes. INTERIORS: not inspected.
Nos 53-55 and 62: four storeys and basements. Three windows
each, No.62 with 3-window return to Roger Street, plus
three-storey three-window extension. Nos 53-54, round-arched
doorways with moulded jambs and lion-head stops, cornice-heads
and patterned radial fanlights. No.55 has projecting
round-arched, rusticated stucco portico with cornice and later
C19 doorway. Patterned, half-glazed door and overlight. No.62
has return with projecting Doric porch, part-glazed doors and
patterned fanlight. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sash
windows; first-floor with cast-iron balconies. Cornice,
continuing from other houses in terrace, at third-floor level.
INTERIORS: not inspected but Nos 53-55 noted to have stick
baluster stairs.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn
finials to areas.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood,
Parish of St Pancras, IV: London: -1952: 50-54).

Listing NGR: TQ3077682208

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084582

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