34, Farringdon Lane
34, FARRINGDON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195590
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 34, Farringdon Lane
- Statutory Address:
- 34, FARRINGDON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195590
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 34, Farringdon Lane
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34, FARRINGDON LANE
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:
- 34, FARRINGDON LANE
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 31412 82169
Details
TQ3182SW
635-1/73/390
ISLINGTON
FARRINGDON LANE (East side)
No.34
GV
II
Warehouse and showrooms, now offices. Dated 1875. By Rowland Plumbe for John Greenwood, a watch and clock manufacturer and importer. Beige stock brick set in English bond, rubbed red brick and painted Bath and Portland stone and stucco dressings; roof obscured by parapet, end-wall brick stacks.
Side-hall entrance plan to right: ground and first floors were originally planned as showrooms; upper floors for warehouse accommodation. Elaborate Gothic Revival style. Four storeys with raised basement and attic; 5-window range. Richly decorated elevation clearly divided into two sections, above and below the first floor cornice line; clock to top centre of gable. Ground-floor arches all in pointed form. Steps rise to deeply recessed entrance in far right bay: C20 doors and overlight; scored stucco reveal. To left, ground-floor recessed casements with plain pointed fanlights, archivolts and engaged banded columns and antae. First-floor stucco sill band beneath shouldered segmental-arched casement windows; projecting stucco first floor cornice with floral pattern to frieze. To second and third storeys, two tall arched bays with stucco recess rising through both storeys into which pairs of windows with colonnettes have been inserted. Single arched sashes flank tall arched bays at each floor level. Top floor with single tall gable that cuts through machicolated cornice and balustraded parapet: clock to centre of gable set in roundel; parapet termini piers capped with pyramidal finials. Gable also capped with elaborate finial. Elevation includes many details: to gable, coat of arms of Greenwood family; to tympana above third storey windows are the arms of the City of London and Middlesex, and the Greenwood family motto 'ut prosim'; to second storey tympana symbols of the family trade are included such as the hour glass, the sundial, the sickle and the serpent. Foundation stone reads: 'This stone was laid by Amelia Fisher Granddaughter of John Greenwood June V MDCCCLXXV'.
INTERIOR: altered; mezzanine floor inserted between ground and first floors. This is one of the outstanding Gothic warehouses in the Farringdon Road area and an important survival of the local clock-making and watch-making industry, of which there are few extant examples. Designed by a well-known architect who was responsible for housing work at Noel Park.
(Historians File, English Heritage, London Division: 1990).
Listing NGR: TQ3141782173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368890
- 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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