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Numbers 4-26 and Attached Railings Including Swinton Hotel (Numbers 22 and 24)

A Grade II Listed Building in King's Cross, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5294 / 51°31'45"N

Longitude: -0.1165 / 0°6'59"W

OS Eastings: 530747

OS Northings: 182849

OS Grid: TQ307828

Mapcode National: GBR K5.ZX

Mapcode Global: VHGQS.XTRF

Plus Code: 9C3XGVHM+Q9

Entry Name: Numbers 4-26 and Attached Railings Including Swinton Hotel (Numbers 22 and 24)

Listing Date: 25 October 1971

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1378955

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478318

ID on this website: 101378955

Location: Finsbury, Camden, London, WC1X

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: King's Cross

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Holy Cross Cromer Street

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description



CAMDEN

TQ3082NE SWINTON STREET
798-1/91/1583 (North side)
25/10/71 Nos.4-26 (Even)
and attached railings. Swinton Hotel
(Nos.22 AND 24)

GV II

Terrace of 12 houses. c1835-44. 3 storeys and basements. Nos
22-26 with C20 attics in slated mansard roofs with dormers. 2
windows each.
Nos 4-22: yellow stock brick with rusticated stucco ground
floors and plain 1st floor sill band. No.14, ground floor
painted. Nos 10 & 12 slightly projecting. Round-arched ground
floor openings. Architraved doorways with pilaster jambs
carrying cornice-heads, some with patterned fanlights, and
panelled doors. Architraved sashes; ground floors mostly with
margin lights. 1st floors with cornices and cast-iron
balconies. Parapets.
Nos 24 & 26: yellow stock brick with rusticated stucco ground
floors and plain 1st floor sill band. Segmental-arched
doorways with fanlights, No.24 with pilaster-jambs carrying
cornice-head, No.26 with fluted quarter columns. Gauged brick
flat arches to recessed sashes with glazing bars; 1st floors
with cast-iron balconies. Stucco cornices and blocking
courses.
INTERIORS not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with
tasselled spearhead finials to areas.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, St
Pancras IV: London: -1952: 98).

Listing NGR: TQ3074782849

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