Numbers 21-39 And Attached Railings

CAMDEN

TQ3082NE AMPTON STREET 798-1/91/46 (South side) 25/10/71 Nos.21-39 (Odd) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 10 houses. c1819-23. By Thomas Cubitt. Symmetrical terrace with slightly projecting central block (Nos 27-33). Nos 21-25 & 35-39: yellow stock brick and stucco ground floor with plain stucco 1st floor sill band. 3 storeys and basements. 2 windows each. Round-arched ground floor openings. Doorways with pilaster-jambs, cornice-heads, fanlights (No.37 radial patterned) and panelled doors. Nos 23 & 37 ground floor sashes with pointed lights. Upper floors with gauged brick arches to recessed sashes; 1st floor No.35 with cast-iron balconies. Parapets; Nos 35-39 stuccoed. Nos 27-33: stucco with plain 1st floor band. 3 storeys and basements. 1 window each, upper floors in slightly projecting bays. Round-arched ground floor openings. Doorways with pilaster-jambs, cornice-heads, Nos 29-33 patterned fanlights, and panelled doors. No.33 ground floor sash with pointed lights. 1st floor windows of 4 lights, with cast-iron balconies, in shallow, segmental-arched recesses. 2nd floor, tripartite sashes in shallow, segmental-arched recesses. Parapets. INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn finials to areas. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.33 was the home of Thomas Carlyle (LCC plaque). (Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, Parish of St Pancras IV: London: -1952: 63).

Listing NGR: TQ3066982606