Hilton Hotel London Euston And Attached Railings

Hilton Hotel London Euston and attached railings, Upper Woburn Place (west side), Nos. 17-18, Camden

A hotel formerly comprising a symmetrical terrace of five house-bays linked by a single storey extension to a terrace in Endsleigh Gardens, of which four house-bays survive (the corner block and former Nos 1-3 Endsleigh Gardens). Built circa 1824-25 by Thomas Cubitt and restored in 1989. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick with stucco ground floors and plain first floor bands; the end and central bays of the terraces are rusticated. The roofs are slated mansard with dormers.

The building comprises four storeys, attics and basements. Each house-bay contains three windows. The former one storey link has been built up to four storeys to match the terraces but retains the stucco parapet at first floor level.

Upper Woburn Place terrace: The house-bays project in progression towards the centre bay. Round-arched ground floor openings are present. All former doorways have been converted for use as windows except the southernmost house, which retains a simplified pilaster-jambed doorway with cornice-head, patterned fanlight and panelled door. The centre bay features a 20th century hotel entrance with canopy. The central bay displays four Corinthian columns, flanked by bays with pilasters, all rising through the first and second floors to support a continuous stucco entablature at third floor level. Gauged brick flat arches span the recessed sash windows. First floor casements feature continuous cast-iron balconies. A parapet above the attic storey bears a plain stucco band.

Endsleigh Gardens terrace: A projecting block at the east end has a three-window return to Upper Woburn Place. All former doorways have been converted for use as windows except the westernmost house, which retains a round-arched doorway with simplified pilaster-jambs, cornice-head, patterned fanlight and panelled door. The easternmost house doorway features a prostyle-in-antis Ionic portico with a half-glazed door and radial patterned fanlight. The projecting east block displays paired Corinthian pilasters rising through the first and second floors; the return features two pilasters and paired pilasters at angles, with the outer bays slightly projecting. One house-bay of the former central composition at the west end has pilasters rising through the first and second floor. All carry a continuous stucco entablature at third floor level. Gauged brick flat arches span the recessed sash windows; the projecting block is tripartite. First floor casements feature continuous cast-iron balconies. The central window is architraved with a console-bracketed pediment, flanked by casements with console-bracketed cornices. At third floor level, all pilasters are carried up to a stucco band on the parapet with plain pilaster strips.

Attached cast-iron railings to the areas feature foliated and urn finials with scroll brackets.