6, Flitcroft Street

CAMDEN

TQ2981SE FLITCROFT STREET 798-1/104/482 (West side) 22/01/91 No.6

GV II

Warehouse, now in use as open-plan offices. c1850, much rebuilt and refronted c1881. Yellow and red brick. Roof probably tiled with central ridge lantern but all felted over. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and basement. 6 windows. Slanting corner site. Two entrances at right, that at angle flanked by brick pilasters supporting a lugged panel; C20 panelled door surrounded by glass. To left, segmental-arched opening with C20 double panelled doors and overlight. Later large ground floor window opening with plain cornice and further entrance; glazing altered. 1st floor transom and mullion windows in shallow segmental-arched recesses linked by moulded red brick impost bands; that at right hand angle above entrance, square headed with projecting wooden box cornice on moulded brick corbels. The window next to it with a shaped cut brick apron. Moulded red brick dentil cornice at 2nd floor level; transom and mullion 2nd floor windows with segmental heads. Moulded red brick cornice at 3rd floor sill level; windows small, square-headed and paired, those in 2nd right hand bay forming part of a projecting gable dormer with stepped brick sill brackets and small square window above. Cornice and blocking course. INTERIOR: plain with cast-iron columns having winged capitals supporting floors. Complex queen post timber roof structure. HISTORICAL NOTE: known to have been used by a tin box manufacturer in the late C19. An unusual survival of a warehouse in this part of London, No.6 forms a group with a further warehouse, No.12 Flitcroft Street, (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ2992981233