PIANO FACTORY BUILDING

PIANO FACTORY BUILDING, OVAL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113237
Date first listed:: 23-May-1989
List Entry Name:: PIANO FACTORY BUILDING
Statutory Address:: PIANO FACTORY BUILDING, OVAL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113237
Date first listed:: 23-May-1989
List Entry Name:: PIANO FACTORY BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: PIANO FACTORY BUILDING, OVAL ROAD

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PIANO FACTORY BUILDING, OVAL 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 28580 83916

Details

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TQ2883NE OVAL ROAD 798-1/76/1259 (East side) 23/05/89 Piano Factory Building

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Piano factory, now offices. 1852. By Thomas and William Piper. For piano manufacturers Messrs Collard and Collard. English bond yellow stock brick; roof not visible. Circular plan. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys. 22 bays, each bay divided by raised pilaster continued to moulded stucco entablature and gablet projecting beyond splayed stucco cornice. Stucco pilasters flank segmental-arched 1st floor doorway. Segmental brick arches over wood and iron casements. Rectangular addition, dating from before 1868 and housing staircase to rear. INTERIOR: cast-iron columns and beams to vaulted brick ceilings; cast-iron columns, each with moulded plinth and capital, surround blocked-in central well; iron king post trusses radiate from central well; addition houses open-well staircase with simple iron balustrade and cantilevered stone treads, and has stone flag flooring. HISTORICAL NOTE: the open well was used for moving the pianos from floor to floor, with a former hoist, during the manufacturing process. The lowest floor was used for drying, the next for upright pianos, the second floor for cleaning, the third for polishing the cases and those above for "belly" manufacture and finishing off. Collard and Collard were the oldest of the well-known piano manufacturing firms of the St Pancras area, having patented a form of upright "square" piano in 1811. This building replaced a similarly shaped one which was destroyed by fire a year after it was built in 1851.

Listing NGR: TQ2858083916

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Legacy System number:: 477687
Legacy System:: LBS

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