4-8, ESSEX ROAD
4-8, ESSEX ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195586
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 4-8, ESSEX ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 4-8, ESSEX ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195586
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 4-8, ESSEX ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4-8, ESSEX 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:
- 4-8, ESSEX ROAD
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 31759 83644
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3183NE ESSEX ROAD 635-1/59/378 (East side) Nos.4-8 (Even)
II
Terraced houses with shops to ground floor. Early C19, 1933 and 1949. Yellow brick, chromed metal and Vitrolite, roofs of artificial slate. Four storeys, two windows each. Ground floor of nos 4-6 is Alfredo's Snack Bar with cafe front of 1949 clad in chromed metal with Vitrolite panels reading 'Entrance next door', 'Cafe', 'Breakfasts', 'Snacks', 'Established 1920', 'Ices 3d, 4d, 6d', 'Teas, Ices, Sandwiches'. No. 8 has an early C19 shop front with reeded pilasters, fascia bowed over the shop window and moulded cornice; window glazing probably late C19 or early C20. Upper storeys of nos 4-6 to Essex Road rebuilt 1933. First-floor windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads. Parapet. Dormers in roofs; stacks to projecting party walls. INTERIOR: of nos 4-6: The counter has been renewed but otherwise the 1949 decorative treatment of the cafe remains and the walls and ceilings are an interesting example of a traditional decorative scheme carried out in chiefly new materials: formica to the dado, with dado rail of wood and chrome; the main wall surface of Vitrolite panelled with chrome strips and occasional mirrors; wooden cornice and frieze of Vitrolite; the ceiling panelled in wood and Vitrolite. (Information from the owner of Alfredo's Snack Bar).
Listing NGR: TQ3175983644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368877
- 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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