194-224, CABLE STREET E1

194-224, CABLE STREET E1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1065285
Date first listed:
22-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
194-224, CABLE STREET E1
Statutory Address:
194-224, CABLE STREET E1
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1065285
Date first listed:
22-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
194-224, CABLE STREET E1
Statutory Address 1:
194-224, CABLE STREET E1

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
194-224, CABLE STREET E1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 34721 80898

Details

1. CABLE STREET E1 4431 (South Side) Nos 194 to 224 (even) TQ 3480 22/733 22.8.72. II GV 2. C18, late. Stock brick with parapet. 3 storeys and basement. Majority 2 windows. Recessed windows, mostly with glazing bars. Wooden doorcases with shaped brackets, dentilled or reeded cornices, either with plain reveals, arch and flat hood, or with pediment and festooned frieze. No 206 as above but visible windows have only vertical glazing bars. Wooden doorcase with reeded brackets and cornice, arch and flat hood. 6 panelled door. No 214 has a good early C19 shop front with 4 shaped brackets and segmental fanlight. No 220. 3 dormers in slate mansard roof. Corbelled brick band below stone coping. Wide stucco band, with cornice below top floor sills and another band at 1st floor sill level. 3 windows, modern glazing in original window spaces with segmental heads. Wood doorcase in centre with stucco surround, open pediment, plain engaged Doric columns and semi-circular fanlight. No 200 has coachway entrance to rear on ground floor. Later industrial buildings at rear of No 200 not listed.

The Dolphin Public House, Nos 192 to 224 (even) and No 230, The Britannia Public House, The Town Hall & Gate Piers form a well defined group on the South Side of Cable Street.

Listing NGR: TQ3475880897

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
205809
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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