MANOR GARDENS HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE

MANOR GARDENS HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE, 6 AND 7, MANOR GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195678
Date first listed:: 20-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: MANOR GARDENS HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE
Statutory Address:: MANOR GARDENS HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE, 6 AND 7, MANOR GARDENS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195678
Date first listed:: 20-Jun-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: MANOR GARDENS HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR GARDENS HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE, 6 AND 7, MANOR GARDENS

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:: MANOR GARDENS HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE, 6 AND 7, MANOR GARDENS

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 30378 86377

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3086SW MANOR GARDENS 635-1/21/613 (North side) 20/06/74 Nos.6 AND 7 Manor Gardens Health and Community Centre (Formerly Listed as: MANOR GARDENS Nos.6-9 (Consecutive))

GV II

Houses now School health and community centre. The west wing was a pair of semi-detached houses, of early C19 date; the centre block, set back, was built for the North Islington School for Mothers in 1927-8, and the connecting block then or later; together with nos 8 and 9, which are set forward and match nos 6 and 7, they now form the Manor Gardens Health and Community Centre. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond to the early C19 buildings and English bond to the centre wing, roofs of Welsh slate. Two and three storeys over basement; the early C19 houses of three windows each, the centre block of five-window range. The early C19 houses have steps up to flat-arched entrances in the slightly recessed outer bay, with stucco surround of pilasters but entablature now missing; the doorcase has panelled pilasters with cornice, sidelights, and overlight with decorative glazing, and panelled doors of original design. All windows with gauged brick heads, those to ground floor round-arched, those to first floor flat-arched; 6/6 sashes of original design to all windows except westernmost first-floor, which is blank; most ground-floor windows with radiating glazing bars; boxed eaves; hipped roof with dormers and stacks to party walls. The centre block has a segmental-arched entrance in a single-storey porch to the recessed wing on the left, with dentil cornice and parapet over; ground-floor windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads, set back in a round-arched panel; first-floor windows flat-arched with stone or composition stone lintel; storey band to second floor; small flat-arched windows to second floor under eaves with mutules; hipped roof with stack to side wing; linking wing has flat-arched windows, most with gauged brick heads. The North Islington School for Mothers was founded in 1913 and was a pioneering organisation in voluntary social work in the borough.

Listing NGR: TQ3037886377

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Legacy System number:: 369130
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.