NORTH SIDE YARD

NORTH SIDE YARD, CHISWELL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187310
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NORTH SIDE YARD
Statutory Address:: NORTH SIDE YARD, CHISWELL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187310
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NORTH SIDE YARD
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH SIDE YARD, CHISWELL STREET
Statutory Address 2:: NORTH SIDE YARD, WHITBREAD'S BREWERY

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:: NORTH SIDE YARD, CHISWELL STREET
Statutory Address:: NORTH SIDE YARD, WHITBREAD'S BREWERY

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32504 82020

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3281NW CHISWELL STREET 635-1/78/242 (North side) 29/09/72 North side yard, Whitbread's Brewery

GV II

Brewery buildings. 1870, altered. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof of slate where visible. Three and four storeys; entrance to the yard flanked by the Brewers' House to west, with one-window range to Chiswell Street and four-window range to yard, and by a three-storey building to the east, with one-window range to Chiswell Street and answering facade treatment; the rear buildings, to three sides of the yard are of three storeys, ten-window range to west, three to north and thirteen to east. To Chiswell Street the Brewers' House has an elliptical-arched entrance in recessed centre with gauged brick head and fanlight; bold dentil cornice which runs across single-bay screen wall to yard; first-floor window round-arched, second- and third-floor flat-arched, all with gauged brick heads; moulded stucco storey band between first and second floor, moulded stucco cornice above second and third floors; parapet. Return to yard has small segmental-arched windows to ground floor, flat-arched above, all with gauged brick heads. Answering facade has blank ground floor, added single-storey projecting blocks, heavy dentil cornice running out in the same way, round-arched window to first floor and flat-arched to second, answering mouldings and parapet. Yard buildings have flat-arched warehouse openings under metal beams, with late C20 glazing inserted, to the ground floor on three sides, apart from seven segmental arches to the south end of the east side, and to the first floor on the west and north sides. Pedimented stone sundial of 1774 from former buildings on the site inserted at first-floor level on north side. Third-floor windows segmental-arched on all three sides; parapet to east and west sides; north side has a gable to the western bay and parapet to the rest with mansard behind,and gabled four-storey cross-wing at the north-east corner. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3250482020

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Legacy System number:: 368732
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.