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On the Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden is what is now London St Pancras International Station.

It is on the corner of Euston Road and Pancras Road and lies next to London King's Cross Station.

Grade I listed building.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-477257-st-pancras-station-and-former-midland-gr#.Vd9aSfSC8Xw" rel="noreferrer nofollow">St Pancras Station and Former Midland Grand Hotel, Camden</a>

   CAMDEN

   TQ3082NW EUSTON ROAD
   798-1/90/421 (North side)
   07/11/67 St Pancras Station and former
   Midland Grand Hotel
   (Formerly Listed as:
   EUSTON ROAD
   St Pancras Station (incl. train
   shed, Chambers & ancillary buildings)

   GV I

   Railway terminus and hotel, comprising train shed, terminus
   facilities and offices, ancillary buildings, taxi stand,
   warehousing: including substructure and storage areas to sides
   and rear, and structures to the forecourt.
   Station, 1865-1869; former Midland Grand Hotel, 1868-76, both
   by George Gilbert Scott. Train shed, 1865-8 by William Henry
   Barlow (engineer). Deep red Gripper's patent Nottingham bricks
   with Ancaster stone dressings and shafts of grey and red
   Peterhead granite; slated roofs renewed in 1994 in carefully
   diminishing courses.
   STYLE: monumental, picturesquely composed Gothic Revival
   building of 23 windows flanked by towers and a curved 10
   window wing to the west.
   EXTERIOR: 4 main storeys with 2 extra storeys in the roof lit
   by stacks of gabled dormers. Station entered through 2
   pointed, vaulted vehicle arches, flanked by pedestrian arches,
   one in the left hand tower and one to the right. Arches with
   recessed, elaborately patterned cast-iron pedestrian
   footbridges with cast-iron plate tracery windows on foliated
   cast-iron brackets. Hotel facade with round-arched ground
   floor openings linked by impost bands; 2nd floor, pointed
   2-light windows with plate tracery & colonnettes; 3rd floor,
   cusped with colonnettes; 4th floor, arcaded windows of 3
   lights. Articulated vertically and horizontally with strings
   and with much elaborate carving. Lombard frieze below
   balustraded parapet. Western curve similar to south elevation
   of west range, that nearest Euston Road with elaborate stepped
   gable over right hand entrance bay with similar gable.
   South-east tower with 2-storey oriel, gabled clocks on each
   face with pinnacles at each corner and spire. Left hand tower,
   3 storeys of elaborately arcaded windows above the entrance
   with Lombard friezes and bartizans with spires at angles.
   Mansard roof with gabled windows to the south; other sides
   with gables and chimneys. Main hotel entrance on end of curve
   to Euston Road; arcaded porte-cochere above which 3 cusped
   arches with small gabled roofs. Carved, stepped gable above
   balustraded parapet flanked by turrets with spires and gables
   over pointed windows.
   West return elevation along Midland Road: first 3 bays
   reproduce elevation found on principal facade. After the first
   three bays of the return, the long elevation angles back to
   follow the line of Midland Road with 8-window range followed
   by a full height stepped gabled range marking the line of the
   grand staircase. Former entrance from Midland Road simplified:
   on first floor level above three segmental arches filled with
   traceried windows; above this rising nearly to the top of the
   gable is tripartite light with stone tracery.
   This system of fenestration continues for one bay to the north
   at which point the elevation begins to step down towards the
   ancillary railway buildings to the north.
   4 storeys over basement terminating in a corbelled parapet, a
   total of 6 window ranges comprised of 2 and 3-light
   double-height windows. 3-storey polygonal wing set between 2
   storey blocks, that block to the right having one window range
   and that to the left with 3-window range. St Pancras Station
   is unusual in retaining a good deal of its related former
   warehousing facilities. These are concentrated to the north of
   the Hotel along Midland Road and Pancras Road, located at and
   below track level. Although the elevation to Midland Road is
   quite varied, a consistent feature is the pointed blind arcade
   to ground floor.
   Towards the Euston Road end there is a set-back which also has
   blind pointed arcade; this section runs for roughly 11 bays of
   the arched ground-floor structure. More elaborate 2-storey
   structure of 8 window range with a flat arched opening for
   vehicles consisting of a wrought-iron lintel set in the fifth
   window range. To either side of this entrance the pointed
   blinded arcade previously noted is continued.
   Continuing north along Midland Road, there is another
   carriageway entrance: a pointed arch with wooden doors and
   hinges of original design. There follows railway arches Nos 17
   through 25. To the first floor of this range is a blind
   pointed arch arcade. Railway arches 14, 15 and 16 have been
   rebuilt. Railway arches 4 through 9 have received a
   first-floor brick addition.
   Pancras Road elevation to the east.
   Hotel elevation: the design of the main elevation continues
   for 5 window ranges along the return, concluding in an
   octagonal turret. On the east flank of the train shed a
   2-storey structure with a lean-to roof, numbering Nos 9-91
   Pancras Road. It is roofed in slate and on alternate bays
   there are stacks. This structure has a 45-window range. At the
   north it curves slightly. The elevation of every bay is
   identical: on the ground floor a pointed segmental arch
   carried on plain piers rebated to accommodate attached
   columns. Above is a pointed arched window set in a shallow
   pointed recess; all of the openings and recesses linked by a
   carved impost. Many of the original shopfronts to the railway
   arches survive intact. Also surviving are carriageway arches
   to storage vaults under the station, originally for Burton
   beer; these have double wooden doors with original ironwork,
   grilles and hinges. North of No.91, the elevation steps up to
   a tower with a blind arcade near the top. The substructure of
   the station continues northwards to the first railway bridge.
   The ground floor being articulated into bays pierced by
   pointed arches. This arrangement continues to No.111. There is
   an additional blind arch, formerly a carriageway, north of
   this. There are 4 rectangular chimneys on the parapet line of
   Nos 93 to 111. The original shopfronts have been altered,
   though the structure itself is intact. Drinking fountain
   comprising gabled stone block with granite eared and
   shouldered inscribed aedicule having a semicircular basin.
   Station approached by dramatic ramp rising from the western
   end with arcaded retaining wall having inset shops. Ramp
   gained by steps from the eastern end with pair of original
   iron gates at the foot and bollards.
   25-bay train shed a single 240 foot span in cast-iron arched
   braces manufactured by the Butterley Iron Company (dated 1867)
   and tied together by the floor girders of the station floor
   which is effectively at 1st floor level. Ribs in the form of
   pointed arches and whole structure supported under the
   platform floor by a grid of iron columns; the structure of the
   space was determined by the module of the Burton beer barrel.
   Screen wall between concourse and hotel with pointed arch,
   plate traceried windows which continue along the sides of the
   shed at the southern end.
   INTERIORS: booking hall: rectangular in plan and having 6 bays
   and double height. Linenfold panelling to ground floor level
   dates to the 1880s as does the curving wood screen of the
   ticket office. Elaborately carved corbels to serving as
   springers for former vaulting. The elevations of the booking
   hall on north, south, east and west intact, that of greatest
   interest to the east since it features 2 double-height, glazed
   pointed arches with mullions and transoms: the glazing pattern
   of original design; this forms a screen wall between the
   booking hall and the platform. To west, decorative cast-iron
   glazed canopy to taxi rank, narrow exit under arch to Midland
   Road (qv). At east of concourse, Ladies' lavatories with
   tiling and early C20 fittings.
   Former hotel: painted decoration begun late in 1872 by
   Frederick Sang at the suggestion of Scott; in December of 1873
   Sang was replaced by Gillow and Co., who were also supplying
   the furniture and fittings to the Hotel. Andrew Benjamin
   Donaldson, a painter, oversaw the completion of the interior
   decorations for Gillow and himself painted the figures at the
   top of the grand staircase in 1876-77. By the summer of 1877
   the interiors were largely complete. The interiors were
   redecorated when electric light was installed between 1885 and
   1889, the overseeing architects being Trubshaw and Towles.
   This affected most of the principal public rooms; the entrance
   hall from Euston Road and the lounge above did retain the
   painted decoration from the first half of the 1870s. The
   500-bedroomed hotel closed in 1935 and was used as offices but
   has retained many original features, fixings and fittings
   including tiles in fine ecclesiastical Gothic and Queen Anne
   Revival styles. There are several interiors of exceptional
   architectural interest. The entrance hall of Euston Road in
   the west wing and the ladies' saloon above are said to have
   been decorated by F Sang. Saloon with arcaded paired columns,
   trabeated ceilings and other decorations, with balcony over
   entrance. The Grand Staircase, also in the west wing, is of
   stone supported on exposed and decorated cast-iron. It is set
   in a rib-vaulted well, the spandrels to the vaults filled with
   paintings of the virtues dressed in medieval and classicising
   garb with the spandrel to the east depicting the arms of the
   Midland Railway (being consolidated and restored at time of
   inspection in September 1994). The Coffee Room on the ground
   floor of the west wing has a crescent-shaped, square-ended
   plan. It was altered with an overlay of Classical ornament in
   the late C19 or possibly early C20, but many of the original
   elements survive, the cornices and ceilings protected behind
   later partitioning and false ceilings. Main staircase the most
   dramatic space, the stone treads supported on exposed and
   expressed cast-iron beams.
   HISTORICAL NOTE: St Pancras was the terminus of the Midland
   Railway and when built was the largest station roof in the
   world without internal supports. In terms of both architecture
   and engineering, it has claim to be Britain's most impressive
   station. Dramatic roof line with gables and spires forms an
   important landmark.
   (Hunter M and Thorne R: Change at King's Cross: London: -1990:
   65-74).

   Listing NGR: TQ2980782564

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