25, Old Gloucester Street

CAMDEN

TQ3081NW OLD GLOUCESTER STREET 798-1/100/1751 (West side) No.25

GV II

St George the Martyr Boys School, now private residence. 1877-8. By J and S Flint Clarkson. Stock brick with yellow brick and some stone dressings, slate roofs. Early Gothic style comparable with No.24 (qv). 4 storeys, with main front to Old Gloucester Street and shallow north front exposed. Front mainly symmetrical with sash windows grouped mostly in pairs and segment-headed, some framed by high pointed arches over tympana. String course over ground storey. Triple gables over top storey, stepped at sides, the centre gable broader and higher; chimneys between gables. Entrances at north end of front and east end of return, both with pointed arches under hood moulds and with pointed fanlights over doors enclosing circular openings. On north-east angle, chamfered cornerstone with biblical quotation and date 1877. Later rear extension of no architectural interest. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms a group with St George the Martyr Church, Queen Square (qv) and No.24 (qv). (The Builder: 14 July 1877; The Builder: 23 February 1878).

Listing NGR: TQ3038981870