Royal Pharmaceutical Society And Attached Railings

CAMDEN

TQ3081NW BLOOMSBURY SQUARE 798-1/100/103 (West side) 24/10/51 No.17 Royal Pharmaceutical Society and attached railings

GV II

Includes: Royal Pharmaceutical Society and attached railings GREAT RUSSELL STREET. Terraced house. Later C17, converted into 2 houses and remodelled by John Nash c1777-8, rejoined 1860 and 3rd floor added. Stucco with rusticated ground floor. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and basement. 7 windows and 8-window return to Great Russell Street. Symmetrical front. Later (1860) distyle Doric porch with triglyph frieze and mutule cornice. Panelled door with fanlight. Round-arched ground floor openings with keystones and impost bands; 2-pane sashes set in plain shallow recesses. Plain band at 1st floor level. Corinthian pilasters from 1st to 3rd floor carrying an entablature, the frieze inscribed "The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain". 1st floor windows with consoles carrying alternating segmental and triangular pediments. 3rd floor recessed rectangular windows. 4th floor with pilasters carrying cornice and blocking course. Windows rectangular recessed sashes. Return of similar elevational treatment without pilasters, and has arched entrance with double doors in 6th bay. 1st floor band inscribed "Incorporated AD 1843". 1st floor windows with cornices and 2nd floor architraved. INTERIOR: has wrought-iron scroll balusters to stone staircase. Principal rooms with plaster ceilings of c1777-8. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn finials to areas.

CAMDEN

TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET 798-1/100/103 Royal Pharmaceutical Society and 24/10/51 attached railings

GV II

See under: No.17 Royal Pharmaceutical Society and attached railings BLOOMSBURY SQUARE.

Listing NGR: TQ3026581681