NUMBERS 24-29 AND 31-37 INCLUDING NUMBERS 33A AND 33B

CAMDEN

TQ2984SW LYME STREET 798-1/66/1086 (South side) 14/05/74 Nos.24-29 AND 31-37 (Consecutive) including Nos.33A and B

GV II

Factory flanked by 12 paired workers' houses. 1852-1855. Grey brick with yellow stock brick dressings. EXTERIOR: No.31 (the factory): Classical style in brick. 4 storeys and semi-basement, 3-window centre flanked by 3 storeys and semi-basement, 2-window slightly recessed wings. Central brick portico with rusticated pilasters carrying entablature; doorway with fanlight and panelled door. Dentil band at 1st floor level, continuing across flanking bays. 4 pilasters, flanking segmental-arched tripartite windows, rise from 1st floor to terminate in dentil cornice capitals above 2nd floor windows, then continuing to simplified dentil entablature with central portion of frieze stuccoed. 3rd floor windows with stuccoed aprons. Brick dentil pediment with small square-headed window in tympanum and bracketed stucco feature on apex. Flanking wings with rusticated quoins to ground floor being slightly wider than upper floors and connected at angle with stucco bracket. Impression of pilasters given by dentil cornice capitals between 2nd floor window arches. Dentil enriched parapets with similarly enriched chimney-stacks on return walls. Nos 24-29 & 32-37 (workers' houses): 3 storeys and semi-basements with 1 window each and 2 storey 1-window entrance bays. Rusticated brick quoins and vertical recessed strips articulating party walls. Round-arched doorways with stucco keystones and impost bands, fanlights and panelled doors. Single light round-arched sashes with stucco keystones and impost bands at 1st floor level above doors. Ground floor sashes of 3 round-arched lights, each with stucco impost bands and central light with stucco keystone. Similar 2-light sashes to upper floors (both lights with stucco keystones); 2nd floor with narrower lights, breaking through the parapet with Lombard type frieze to terminate in small gables. Nos 28, 29, 33a, 34, 35 & 36 with good cast-iron window guards to ground floor. INTERIORS: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2917984017