295 AND 297, PENTONVILLE ROAD, 378 AND 380, GRAYS INN ROAD
295 AND 297, PENTONVILLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113191
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 295 AND 297, PENTONVILLE ROAD, 378 AND 380, GRAYS INN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 295 AND 297, PENTONVILLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113191
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 295 AND 297, PENTONVILLE ROAD, 378 AND 380, GRAYS INN ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 295 AND 297, PENTONVILLE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- 378 AND 380, GRAYS INN ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 295 AND 297, PENTONVILLE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 378 AND 380, GRAYS INN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30370 82984
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3082NW GRAY'S INN ROAD
798-1/90/655 (North side)
06/05/97 Nos.378 AND 380
GV II
Includes: Nos.295 AND 297 PENTONVILLE ROAD.
"Flat iron" block of shops with offices over, prominently
situated at the junction of Gray's Inn Road and Pentonville
Road. c1875. Built to replace buildings destroyed in the
construction of the Metropolitan Railway. Brick with stucco
dressings. Triangular plan with rounded apex. Shop fronts
mostly altered. Upper floors have architraved sashes: 1st
floor with keystones and console-bracketed pediments, 2nd
floor with bracketed sills, keystones and console-bracketed
cornices, 3rd floor with keystones. Continuous sill band
formed by a deep, projecting, bracketed cornice. Above the 3rd
floor windows a further cornice and blocking course,
surmounted at the apex by a tall lead-sheathed tower,
sometimes said to have been for spotting fires, with a
cast-iron balcony at half-height, oculus and cornice capped by
a small ribbed dome with weathervane finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected. "The Lighthouse Building" forms an
important local landmark.
CAMDEN
TQ3082NW PENTONVILLE ROAD
798-1/90/655 Nos.295 AND 297
06/05/97
GV II
See under: Nos.378 AND 380 GRAY'S INN ROAD.
Listing NGR: TQ3037082984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477616
- 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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