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Charles Dickens House and Attached Railings

A Grade I Listed Building in Holborn and Covent Garden, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5236 / 51°31'24"N

Longitude: -0.1163 / 0°6'58"W

OS Eastings: 530780

OS Northings: 182201

OS Grid: TQ307822

Mapcode National: GBR L8.10

Mapcode Global: VHGQS.XYWW

Plus Code: 9C3XGVFM+CF

Entry Name: Charles Dickens House and Attached Railings

Listing Date: 10 June 1954

Last Amended: 11 January 1999

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1356735

English Heritage Legacy ID: 477070

ID on this website: 101356735

Location: Finsbury, Camden, London, WC1N

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St George Queen Square

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description



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TQ3082SE DOUGHTY STREET
798-1/96/312 (East side)
10/06/54 No.48
Charles Dickens' House and attached
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
DOUGHTY STREET
Nos.39-62 (Consecutive))

GV I

Terraced house. c1807-9. Darkened stock brick with slate
mansard roof and dormer. Plain stucco 1st floor sill band. 3
storeys, attic and basement. 3 windows. Round-arched doorway
with stucco surround, pilaster-jambs, cornice-head, fanlight
and panelled door. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed
sashes; ground floor with louvred shutters, 1st floor with
cast-iron balconies. Stucco cornice and blocking course.
Original lead rainwater head and pipe.
INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached
cast-iron railings with urn finials to areas.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this house was between 1837 and 1839 the home
of Charles Dickens (LLC plaque) and is now a house museum: it
is listed Grade I for this reason.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood,
Parish of St Pancras IV: London: -1952: 50-54).

Listing NGR: TQ3078282203

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