43-48, Great Russell Street London, England
Listed Building Data
43-48, Great Russell Street has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1130381
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 9 December 1977
- Name
- 43-48, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
- Location
- 43-48, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
- District
- Camden
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 30096 81563
- Easting
- 530095.8190
- Northing
- 181563.0900
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET 798-1/100/685 (South side) 09/12/77 Nos.43-48 (Consecutive)
GV II
6 terraced houses and shops. c1855-64. By William Finch Hill and possibly EL Paraire. Stucco with rusticated ground floors. STYLE: Modified French Renaissance. EXTERIOR: 4 storey terrace of which the corner buildings (Nos 43 & 48) form slightly higher pavilions. 3 windows each. No.43: with 7-window return to Coptic Street. Rusticated pilaster strips to angles. Shop front of arcaded treatment, the centre arch being the window with decorative wrought-iron grill to riser, the left arch forming a fanlight to the part glazed house door and the right hand arch a fanlight to the shop entrance with elaborately decorative wrought-iron grille. Roundels in spandrels with stained glass. Mutule cornice at 1st floor level. 1st floor windows round-arched, architraved, recessed 2-pane sashes, above which architraved oculi enriched with swags. 2nd floor sill band to segmental-arched architraved sashes. Console bracketed cornice beneath 3rd floor architraved sashes with keys. Cornice surmounted by balustraded parapet. Nos 44-47: ground floor with square-headed openings; recessed windows (C20 glazing) with keys, entrances with keys, rectangular fanlights and mostly C20 doors. Cornice at 1st floor level. Rusticated pilaster strips between 1st and 2nd floor windows and on angles. Architraved 2-pane sashes, 1st floor with console bracketed pediments and fielded aprons, 2nd floor with fielded panels above windows and 3rd floor with cornice heads and fielded panels between the windows. Dentil cornice, with lion masks at intervals, surmounted by balustraded parapet. No.48: with splayed, 1 window corner and 1 window return to Museum Street. Ground floor of arcaded treatment with entrance in splayed corner. Vermiculated rustication to wide piers and voussoirs, keystones with masks. Pilasters with small sculptured plaques of dolphins and anchors above, flanking entrance on splayed corner. All ground floor openings currently boarded up. Mutule cornice at 1st floor level. Rusticated pilaster strips to angles and separating windows from 1st to 3rd floor. 2-pane sashes; 1st floor round-arched, architraved, recessed sashes above which architraved oculi enriched with swags. 2nd floor segmental-arched architraved sashes. Console bracketed cornice beneath 3rd floor architraved sashes with keys. Cornice
surmounted by balustraded parapet. INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: above the corner entrance of No.48, a decorative wrought-iron sign bracket. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.46 was the home of Randolph Caldecott, artist (GLC plaque).
Listing NGR: TQ3009081558
