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Latitude: 51.519 / 51°31'8"N
Longitude: -0.1239 / 0°7'26"W
OS Eastings: 530265
OS Northings: 181674
OS Grid: TQ302816
Mapcode National: GBR J9.BN
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.S2VW
Plus Code: 9C3XGV9G+HC
Entry Name: Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Attached Railings
Listing Date: 24 October 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1244453
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476732
Also known as: 17 Bloomsbury Square
ID on this website: 101244453
Location: Bloomsbury, Camden, London, WC1A
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Bloomsbury Way St George
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW BLOOMSBURY SQUARE
798-1/100/103 (West side)
24/10/51 No.17
Royal Pharmaceutical Society and
attached railings
GV II
Includes: Royal Pharmaceutical Society and attached railings
GREAT RUSSELL STREET.
Terraced house. Later C17, converted into 2 houses and
remodelled by John Nash c1777-8, rejoined 1860 and 3rd floor
added. Stucco with rusticated ground floor.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and basement. 7 windows and 8-window
return to Great Russell Street. Symmetrical front. Later
(1860) distyle Doric porch with triglyph frieze and mutule
cornice. Panelled door with fanlight. Round-arched ground
floor openings with keystones and impost bands; 2-pane sashes
set in plain shallow recesses. Plain band at 1st floor level.
Corinthian pilasters from 1st to 3rd floor carrying an
entablature, the frieze inscribed "The Pharmaceutical Society
of Great Britain". 1st floor windows with consoles carrying
alternating segmental and triangular pediments. 3rd floor
recessed rectangular windows. 4th floor with pilasters
carrying cornice and blocking course. Windows rectangular
recessed sashes. Return of similar elevational treatment
without pilasters, and has arched entrance with double doors
in 6th bay. 1st floor band inscribed "Incorporated AD 1843".
1st floor windows with cornices and 2nd floor architraved.
INTERIOR: has wrought-iron scroll balusters to stone
staircase. Principal rooms with plaster ceilings of c1777-8.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn
finials to areas.
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET
798-1/100/103 Royal Pharmaceutical Society and
24/10/51 attached railings
GV II
See under: No.17 Royal Pharmaceutical Society and attached
railings BLOOMSBURY SQUARE.
Listing NGR: TQ3026581681
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