Charles Dickens House Museum London, England
Listed Building Data
Charles Dickens House Museum has been designated a Grade I 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1356735
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 10 June 1954
- Name
- CHARLES DICKENS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
- Location
- CHARLES DICKENS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 48, DOUGHTY STREET
- District
- Camden
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 30780 82201
- Easting
- 530780.2400
- Northing
- 182201.0300
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
CAMDEN
TQ3082SE DOUGHTY STREET 798-1/96/312 (East side) 10/06/54 No.48 Charles Dickens' House and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: DOUGHTY STREET Nos.39-62 (Consecutive))
GV I
Terraced house. c1807-9. Darkened stock brick with slate mansard roof and dormer. Plain stucco 1st floor sill band. 3 storeys, attic and basement. 3 windows. Round-arched doorway with stucco surround, pilaster-jambs, cornice-head, fanlight and panelled door. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sashes; ground floor with louvred shutters, 1st floor with cast-iron balconies. Stucco cornice and blocking course. Original lead rainwater head and pipe. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn finials to areas. HISTORICAL NOTE: this house was between 1837 and 1839 the home of Charles Dickens (LLC plaque) and is now a house museum: it is listed Grade I for this reason. (Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, Parish of St Pancras IV: London: -1952: 50-54).
Listing NGR: TQ3078282203
