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Latitude: 51.5182 / 51°31'5"N
Longitude: -0.1204 / 0°7'13"W
OS Eastings: 530511
OS Northings: 181598
OS Grid: TQ305815
Mapcode National: GBR K9.4X
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.V3QG
Plus Code: 9C3XGV9H+7R
Entry Name: Carlisle House
Listing Date: 5 May 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378785
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478139
ID on this website: 101378785
Location: St Giles, Camden, London, WC1V
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: House
CAMDEN
TQ3081NE SOUTHAMPTON ROW
798-1/101/1478 (East side)
05/05/88 Nos.8 AND 10
Carlisle House
GV II
Hotel and offices, now office block and shop. 1905-6. By
Bradshaw Gass and Hope. Stone faced with steel frame. Steeply
pitched slated roof to eaves with 2 levels of dormers.
Freestanding to front and sides. Edwardian Baroque manner.
EXTERIOR: 6 storeys plus roof storeys at 2 levels. 5 bays with
corner turrets. Rusticated ground and first floors, above
ashlar faced. Main entrance on left hand corner; round-headed
with rusticated keystone and voussoirs, cartouche over and
broken segmental pediment. Square-headed windows except to 4th
floor where round-headed with heavy keys. Segmental pediments
to 1st floor centre windows and continuous cast-iron balcony.
Cornices above ground and first floors; main cornice above
fourth floor with subsidiary cornice to fifth floor. Giant
pilaster strips rising from second, through fourth floor.
Corner turrets corbelled out from first floor level rising to
copper covered domes. Turrets have irregular, narrow,
vertically set windows. Returns with broad segmental pediment
above 4th floor and tall pedimented gable above. Tall slab
chimneys.
INTERIOR: retains original staircase and panelling to first
floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: an early example of a substantial building of
steel framed construction.
(The British Architect, 1 March 1907).
Listing NGR: TQ3051781603
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