Cornwell House
120, CLERKENWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195545
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Cornwell House
- Statutory Address:
- 120, CLERKENWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195545
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Cornwell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 120, CLERKENWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- CORNWELL HOUSE, 20-21, CLERKENWELL GREEN
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:
- 120, CLERKENWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- CORNWELL HOUSE, 20-21, CLERKENWELL GREEN
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 31540 82100
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3182SE CLERKENWELL GREEN 635-1/74/279 (South West side) Nos.20-21 Cornwell House
GV II
Includes: No.120 CLERKENWELL ROAD. Built as the Sessions House Hotel, now showrooms and offices. 1879, converted to showrooms and offices c.1925. White brick laid in Flemish bond with dressings of red brick and stucco, polished granite to ground floor, roofs obscured by parapet. Four storeys, twelve-window range, the building curved in plan to the street and breaking back and forth irregularly. Ground floor of no 20 is a three-bay shop front with segmental-arched entrance and two flat-arched windows; the rest of the building (nos 21 Clerkenwell Green and 120 Clerkenwell Road) has shop fronts divided by paired Ionic pilasters on polished granite bases and carrying consoles which rise through the fascia to the cornice which breaks forwards over them. The shop fronts have, apart from the left-hand bay of no 2l, wooden architraves which may be original. First-floor windows segmental-arched with segmental dripmoulds and keystones over some and cornice on consoles over others; second-floor windows round-arched with keystones, and balcony to eighth from left; third-floor windows segmental-arched with heads of gauged red brick and keystones; red brick dressings to quasi-springing bands on first and second floor and brick banding to third floor; bracketed cornice; parapet with openwork balustrade and pediment over eighth bay from left. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3154582095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368770
- 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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