Shoreditch County Court and Attached Railings
SHOREDITCH COUNTY COURT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, LEONARD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195652
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Shoreditch County Court and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- SHOREDITCH COUNTY COURT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, LEONARD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195652
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Shoreditch County Court and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHOREDITCH COUNTY COURT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, LEONARD STREET
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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:
- SHOREDITCH COUNTY COURT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, LEONARD STREET
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:
- TQ3287082388
Details
TQ3282SE
635-1/76/545
29/09/72
ISLINGTON
LEONARD STREET
(North side)
No.19
Shoreditch County Court and attached railings
II
Former Finsbury Technical College. 1881. Designed by Edward
Clifton. White brick set in Flemish bond, stone dressings,
roof of slate. Three storeys over basement; the facade has a
centrepiece of three-window range, but it is not in the
centre: three-window range to the west, six-window range to
the east. Prostyle pedimented Doric portico of Portland stone
in the middle of the centrepiece, the typanum filled with a
coat of arms and emblems of science and technology;
flat-arched entrance with panelled double doors and overlight.
Ground- and first-floor windows round-arched with keystones
and stone springing bands; those flanking the portico are
paired with Ionic pilasters between the capitals inscribed
'DAVY' and 'WATT'. Above the portico a tripartite window with
stone antae and pedimented entablature; main entablature above
first floor; second-floor windows segmental-arched with gauged
brick heads; cornice; cast-iron cresting over blocking course.
Substantial chimneystack between centrepiece bay and east
range, the roof of the east range markedly higher than the
rest. Cast-iron railings to area.
Finsbury Technical College, set up by the City and Guilds of
London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education,
was the first technical college in England.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division; South
Kensington to Robbins: London: 1964-: 23).
Listing NGR: TQ3287082388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369061
- 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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