Numbers 74 To 77 And Attached Railings

CAMDEN

TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET 798-1/100/688 (North side) 28/02/69 Nos.74-77 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses. c1662-4, altered mid C19. Stucco with rusticated ground floor. 4 storeys and basements. 3 windows each. No.77 with 3-window return to Montague Street. Entrances with architraved stucco surrounds, panelled reveals, consoles and cornices; fanlights and panelled doors. Pilasters (rusticated on 1st and 2nd floors) between houses and at angles carry main cornice with balustraded parapet. Architraved 4-pane sashes, 1st floor with console bracketed cornices. Bracketed cornice at 3rd floor level. Return to No.77 with cast-iron verandah, added 1841, with elaborately ornamented cast-iron balustrade, including heads on roundels and foliage, and posts to tented canopy. INTERIORS: No.75 with panelled hall and rooms. Stair with barley sugar twist balusters and wreathed handrail. No.77 has a panelled hall with Corinthian fluted pilasters and door with enriched mouldings; original staircase. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached C19 cast-iron railings to areas. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.77 was the home of Thomas Henry Wyatt, architect (GLC plaque).

Listing NGR: TQ3023981696