Unity House and houses in Euston Road
Unity House and houses in Euston Road
Record No
107508
Title
Unity House and houses in Euston Road
Description
View of Unity House at 199 to 203, and a terrace of four-storey houses, at 205 to 211 Euston Road in the former Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras, looking south. The c1910, three-storey with basement Portland stone Unity House, has ashlar banding and large metal-framed casement windows. Roman balustrading above the parapet, with two shallow circular bays over the upper floors with balconies with ornate wrought-iron bow-fronted balustrading with metal name plates reading 'The National Union of Railwaymen' (NUR, formed 1913), matched by another plate mounted on the parapet in the middle of the building name. The housing terrace has matching ashlar banding at the ground floor, and a mix of exposed brick or rendered facias over the upper floors, with gauged brick arches above the sash windows, with cantilever first-floor balconies with wrought-iron railings. Most houses are seen in a poor condition with grimy exteriors, missing roof coverings, and broken windows, possibly as a result of bombing during World War II. Number 207, a commercial and private hotel seen with vacancies, conversely, is in a reasonable state of repair. The end houses at 205 and 207, along with houses at the rear in Gower Place, were demolished and Unity House later extended in the same style. The remainder were demolished, and eventually replaced by Babcock House. Eventually the entire terrace was demolished and redeveloped with The Gibbs Building by the Wellcome Trust. The Wellcome Research Institution building, is just visible on the far left.
Date of execution
1948
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Notes
- Updated 2010 10 28
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_339_F4510
London picture map location
Exact
Subjects
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