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Latitude: 51.5382 / 51°32'17"N
Longitude: -0.1402 / 0°8'24"W
OS Eastings: 529081
OS Northings: 183781
OS Grid: TQ290837
Mapcode National: GBR D2.PS
Mapcode Global: VHGQS.JL7P
Plus Code: 9C3XGVQ5+7W
Entry Name: St Martin in the Fields Almshouses, Numbers 1-9
Listing Date: 14 May 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1272268
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476638
ID on this website: 101272268
Location: Camden Town, Camden, London, NW1
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Camden Town with Primrose Hill
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Pancras Old Church
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
CAMDEN
TQ2983NW BAYHAM STREET
798-1/77/60 (East side)
14/05/74 St Martin-in-the-Fields Almshouses,
Nos.1-9 (consec)
GV II
Terraced almshouses. 1817-18. By Henry Hake Seward. For the
Parish of St Martin-in-the Fields. Built by J Tomling. Yellow
stock brick and slate roofs.
Symmetrical 2 storey terrace. Projecting, pedimented centre
(No.5) having 3 windows. Flanking houses, 2 windows each (1
blind). Centre with pink granite columns having foliated
capitals and shaped imposts with trefoil enrichment supporting
shallow slated roof over entrance and flanking canted bays.
Panelled doors under toplights in plain surrounds. Recessed
4-pane sashes, ground floor bays with gauged red brick flat
arches. Oval blind oculus in tympanum. Flanking houses with
square-headed doorways, fanlights and panelled doors. Gauged
brick flat arches to recessed 4-pane sashes, those above
entrances being blind. Slab chimney-stacks rise from party
walls. Original, shaped cast-iron rainwater heads.
INTERIOR: several interiors now opened up.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the almshouses were erected to house up to 70
poor widows or spinsters of the parish of St
Martins-in-the-Fields. St Martin-in-the-Fields Almshouses and
Chapel (qv), form a group.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, St
Pancras part IV: London: -1952: 136).
Listing NGR: TQ2908183781
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