Number 9 And Attached Railings And Gate

CAMDEN

TQ2685NW CHURCH ROW 798-1/26/222 (North side) 11/08/50 No.9 and attached railings and gate

GV II*

Terraced house. Probably c1728, built by R Hughes; refronted late C19 in Georgian style. Brown brick with red brick dressings and decorated cross-shape tie plates. Tiled roof with dormers. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement. Double fronted with 5 windows. Doorcase reused from former entrance at east end; bracketed hood, doorway architraved with patterned fanlight and panelled door. Gauged red brick flat arches to flush frame sashes with exposed boxing. Plain brick band at 1st floor level. Parapet with moulded brick band. INTERIOR: of interest for its double plan and central open-well staircase. Each half of the house with front and rear rooms, the latter with closets. Hallway has full-height panelling with dado rail and box cornice; Tuscan pilasters denote its broadening into staircase hall. Closed string staircase with turned balusters, moulded newels and ramped handrails in open well, set within fully-panelled staircase hall. Ground floor front room (left of door) has full-height panelling and early C18 fireplace; room to its rear with some panelling, box cornice and dado rail. Rooms to right of hallway also fully panelled, and with Tuscan pilasters into former alcove, now with partition and door into rear room with closet. First floor front room the width of the house with bolection-moulded fireplaces at either end, full-height panelling, box cornices and shutters. Rear rooms and closets also panelled, with ovolo mouldings and box cornices. Second floor with some horizontal boarding and cupboards. Stick baluster stair and matchboard panelling on descent to basement. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas with urn finials and lamp-holders flanking wrought-iron gateway of scrolled heart design with overthrow and gate. HISTORICAL NOTE: during the 1860s this house was a Girls' Reformatory School and in 1890s the Field Lane Industrial School for Girls. (RCHME: London: Vol. II, West London: London: -1925: 42; Victoria County History: Middlesex: Vol. IX Paddington & Hampstead Parishes: London: -1989: 20).

Listing NGR: TQ2629085654