New Court Numbers 1-30 is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1986. Block of flats. 6 related planning applications.
New Court Numbers 1-30
- WRENN ID
- ruined-render-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1986
- Type
- Block of flats
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CAMDEN
TQ2685NW FLASK WALK 798-1/26/457 (North side) 20/08/86 New Court Nos.1-30 (consec)
GV II
Block of 30 artisans' flats. 1854. Built for philanthropic solicitor Hugh Jackson; architect unknown. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings; continuous plain brick sill bands to upper floors and rusticated brick quoins at angles and articulating central bays. Slate pitched roof with projecting bracketed eaves and tall slab chimney-stacks. 5 storeys. 12 windows. Recessed open stone staircases with landing balconies between windows 2 and 3, 6 and 7, 10 and 11. Cambered arches to windows; transom and mullion casements to windows flanking stairs and sashes to those between. INTERIORS: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the second earliest surviving example of artisans' flats, for the "deserving poor" in regular employment, predating the foundation of the Peabody Trust and the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company. The earliest surviving block of this kind is the Streatham Street Buildings (now Parnell House), (qv). Hugh Jackson was the father of architect TG Jackson.
Listing NGR: TQ2648685795
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