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Latitude: 51.5186 / 51°31'7"N
Longitude: -0.1212 / 0°7'16"W
OS Eastings: 530456
OS Northings: 181639
OS Grid: TQ304816
Mapcode National: GBR J9.YS
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.V395
Plus Code: 9C3XGV9H+CG
Entry Name: Numbers 25-35 and 35A and Attached Screen to Sicilian Avenue
Listing Date: 14 May 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378787
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478141
ID on this website: 101378787
Location: Bloomsbury, Camden, London, WC1B
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: Bloomsbury Way St George
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW SOUTHAMPTON ROW
798-1/100/1480 (West side)
14/05/74 Nos.25-35 AND 35A (Odd)
and attached screen to Sicilian
Avenue
GV II
Shopping parade with offices, formerly flats, over, forming
the north-east return to Sicilian Avenue (qv). 1906-10. By RJ
Worley. For the Bedford Estate. Red brick with white
terracotta dressings and 1st floor.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys 8-window bays plus a 4-storey tourelle,
with 2 light transom and mullion windows, from 2nd floor level
on the left hand return to Sicilian Avenue. Ground floor with
later C20 shopfronts separated by Corinthian columns on
plinths carrying an entablature with plain terracotta frieze
at 2nd floor level. Pilasters at angles. 1st floor with
square-headed 4-light casement windows. 2nd, 3rd and 4th
floors some canted 5-light bay windows and some groups of
square-headed windows, all with terracotta transoms and
mullions. All windows with small, leaded panes, some with
shields. Central pedimented gable with, to either side oriels
rising from the 3rd floor. Modillion cornice. The 4th storey
of the tourelle is above the cornice and topped with a conical
roof.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
Attached to No.25 is a Classical screen across Sicilian
Avenue. 3 Ionic columns on plinths carrying an entablature
with the words "Sicilian Avenue" on the frieze, surmounted by
a balustrade with urns on the 2 central piers.
Nos 25-35 (odd) and 35A Southampton Row form a homogeneous
development with Nos 1-29 (odd) and 6-20 (even) Sicilian
Avenue (qqv), Nos 15-23 (odd) Southampton Row (qv) and Nos 1-6
(consec) Vernon Place (qv).
(Harwood E and Saint A: Exploring England's Heritage, London:
-1991: 121-22).
Listing NGR: TQ3045681639
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