Thomas Coram Foundation For Children And Attached Railings, Lanterns And Parapets

CAMDEN

TQ3082SW BRUNSWICK SQUARE 798-1/95/120 (North side) 14/05/74 No.40 Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and attached railings, lanterns & parapets

GV II

Detached office block. c1937. By JM Shepherd. For Thomas Coram Foundation. Brown brick with hipped pantile roof and dormers. Double fronted symmetrical building in Neo-Georgian style. 2 storeys, attic and basement. 7 windows and 1 window recessed extension at west end. Central, stone architraved doorway with bracketed cornice and scrolled pediment with central bust of Coram. Wooden panelled double doors. Stone ground floor sill band. Gauged brick flat arches to slightly recessed sash windows with exposed boxing and glazing bars. At 1st floor level, flanking the scrolled pediment, roundels carved in low relief with putti heads. Stone cornice and blocking course. Central stone plaque at 2nd floor inscribed RFTHG 1937. INTERIOR: contains 3 rooms from the former west wing of the Foundling Hospital 1742-1747, demolished 1926. These are the court room, the committee room and the picture gallery. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rainwater head to extension with relief of a lamb. Approached by double flight of steps with wrought-iron railings and flanked by piers carrying lanterns. Attached stone area parapets.

Listing NGR: TQ3040282378