The Roundhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1954. A 19th century Theatre. 13 related planning applications.
The Roundhouse
- WRENN ID
- night-pier-briar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1954
- Type
- Theatre
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ2884SW 798-1/64/194 10/06/54
CAMDEN CHALK FARM ROAD (South West side) The Roundhouse (Formerly Listed as: CHALK FARM ROAD The Round House Theatre)
GV II*
Formerly known as: Warehouse of W & A Gilbey Ltd CHALK FARM ROAD. Goods locomotive shed, now theatre. 1846-7. By Robert B Dockray. For the London and North Western Railway. Built by Branson & Gwyther. Converted for use as a theatre 1967 and 1985. Yellow stock brick. Low pitched conical slate roof having a central smoke louvre, now glazed, and bracketed eaves. Circular plan 48m in diameter. Buttresses with offsets mark bays each having a shallow, recessed rectangular panel. Former entrances and windows with round-arched heads. INTERIOR: roof carried on 24 cast-iron Doric columns (defining original locomotive spurs) and a framework of curved ribs. Believed to retain original flooring, turn table and fragments of early railway lines. Wooden gallery probably added by Gilbeys, late C19. HISTORICAL NOTE: the building did not last long as an engine shed; by the 1860s the engines had become too long to be turned and stored there so it was leased to W & A Gilbey Ltd as a liquor store until converted to a theatre in the 1960s. (Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 114).
Listing NGR: TQ2825584318
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