Description

CAMDEN

TQ3081SE LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS
798-1/106/1063 (South side)
24/10/51 No.66
Powis House and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS
Nos.65 AND 66)

GV II*

House. c1685. Designed by William Winde. For the Marquis of
Powis. Craftsman, A Jordan. Exterior rebuilt by Lutyens c1930
following C17 style. Interior from c1772 when the house was
divided into two parts, probably by Thomas Leverton. Brown
brick, red brick and stone dressings with rusticated stone
quoins. Stone semi-basement, bands to each floor, dentil and
modillion cornice. Tiled hipped roof with pedimented dormers
and stone dressed chimney-stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and semi-basement. 7 windows with
projecting, central, pedimented 3 window bay. 2-leaf entrance
doors with flanking rusticated pilasters carrying entablature
with open pediment; approached by twin quadrant flights of
steps with wrought-iron railings and overthrow lamp-holder.
Gauged flat brick arches to slightly recessed sash windows
with exposed boxing; centre second floor window with stone
architrave surmounted by stone cherubs holding cartouche.
Window above with stone architrave. North end of house
returned over arcade of brick arches on pavement to Remnant
Street.
INTERIOR: good, with C19 open well staircase, panelled rooms,
enriched doorcases and other features. Only internal feature
which might date to C17 is the carved marble chimney piece on
the second floor.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn
finials to cobbled forecourt.
(RCHME: London, Vol. II, West London: London: -1925: 59-60;
Survey of London: Vol. III, St Giles-in-the-Fields, part I,
Lincoln's Inn Fields: London: 1912: 110-118).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Powis House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7236912

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)