Description

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TQ3082NE
798-1/91/1588

CAMDEN
SWINTON STREET (South side)
Nos. 55-67 (Odd) and attached railings including the former King's Head Public House (Nos. 61-63)

(Formerly listed as Nos. 55-67 (Odd) and attached railings including The King's Head Public House (Nos. 61-63))

25/10/71

GV
II
Terrace of seven houses. c1776, some altered.

Nos. 55-59: darkened stock brick, Nos. 55 and 57, third floors rebuilt. No.55 painted ground floor; Nos. 55 and 57 rusticated stucco ground floors. Plain stucco first floor bands. Four storeys and basements. Three windows each. No.55, wooden doorway with fluted pilasters and brackets carrying projecting cornice; fanlight and panelled door. No.57, wooden Doric doorcase with open pediment; round-arched doorway with radial fanlight, panelled reveals and door. No.59, segmental-arched, recessed doorway with fanlight. Gauged red brick flat arches to recessed sashes with glazing bars; first floors Nos. 55 and 57 with cast-iron balconies. Parapets.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn (No.55) and torch flambe finials to areas.

Nos. 61-63 (Former King's Head Public House): stucco. Formerly two houses with three windows each, now five windows. Four storeys and cellars. C20 public house frontage with late C19 consoles flanking fascia. Architraved sashes, with lugs to first floor. Parapet with plain stucco band.

INTERIORS: ground floor with c1930s bar interior with central counter and bar back.
No.65: darkened stock brick. four storeys one window. Late C19 wooden shop frontage with enriched consoles. Gauged red brick flat arches to recessed C20 sashes. Parapet.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

No.67: darkened stock brick with painted ground floor. Four storeys and basement. Three windows. Wooden architraved doorcase with simplified Doric entablature and dentil cornice, fanlight, panelled reveals and C20 door. Gauged red brick flat arches to recessed C20 sashes. Parapet.

INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with torch flambe finials to areas.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, St Pancras IV: London: 1952: 98).

Listing NGR: TQ3064082777

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086396

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)