100, 101 AND 102, GREAT RUSSELL STREET

CAMDEN

TQ2981NE GREAT RUSSELL STREET 798-1/99/692 (North side) 24/10/51 Nos.100, 101 AND 102 (Formerly Listed as: GREAT RUSSELL STREET Nos.98-102 (Consecutive))

GV II

3 terraced houses. c1685-6. The houses are built on the site of Thanet House and may incorporate its shell. Built by P Trant and refaced 1821 by Thomas Cubitt and probably again in 1861. Stucco with vermiculated rusticated ground floors. 4 storeys and basements. 2 windows each. Pilaster strips through floors, ground and 1st floor rusticated. Architraved sash windows, the lst and 2nd floor with pulvinated friezes and cornices. Double band at 2nd floor level. Pilasters carry entablature with shaped bracketed cornice and pulvinated frieze. Blocking course. No.100: 4 semicircular openings to ground floor. Doorway with fanlight and panelled door. Nos 101 & 102: square-headed doorways with pilaster jambs carrying cornice-head and fanlight; panelled double doors. INTERIORS: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.100 has a bronze plaque commemorating the residence of Topham and Lady Beauclerk who lived at Thanet House from 1779. (Survey of London: Vol. V, Parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Part II: London: -1914: 147; RCHME: London, Vol. II, West London: London: -1925: 60).

Listing NGR: TQ2993181522