Numbers 54-58 And Attached Railings

CAMDEN

TQ3082NW BIRKENHEAD STREET 798-1/90/94 (West side) 14/05/74 Nos.54-58 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 5 houses, Nos 54-56 now hotels. c1834-49. Built by W Forrester Bray, restored late C20. Yellow stock brick with later patching. Nos 54 & 55, red brick parapets. No.56 painted. Stucco ground floors to Nos 54-56. Plain stucco 1st floor sill bands. Slated mansard roofs with dormers. Round-arched ground floor openings. No.54, single storey, stucco portico extension on return; round-arched doorway with fluted Doric three-quarter columns carrying cornice-head; fanlight and panelled door. Nos 55-57, architraved doorways with pilaster-jambs carrying cornice-heads with fanlights (No.57 patterned); panelled doors (No.56 C20). No.58, doorway with fluted Doric quarter columns carrying cornice; patterned fanlight and panelled door. Gauged-brick flat arches to recessed sashes; 1st floor in shallow arched recesses. Cast-iron balconies to 1st floor windows. Parapets. INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with bud and other finials to areas. (Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, Parish of St Pancras IV: London: -1952: 109).

Listing NGR: TQ3035582894