3 AND 5, ST JOHN STREET
3 AND 5, ST JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195728
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 5, ST JOHN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 5, ST JOHN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195728
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 5, ST JOHN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 AND 5, ST JOHN STREET
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:
- 3 AND 5, ST JOHN 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:
- TQ 31787 81828
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3181NE ST JOHN STREET 635-1/77/778 (West side) Nos.3 AND 5
GV II
Butcher's shop and offices. Dated in pediment 'REBUILT BY W. HARRIS 1897' with low-relief carving of a boar. Yellow brick with stone dressings, roof of Welsh slate. Five storeys over basement, four-window range to south and four to east in St John Street proper; chamfered corner. The ground floor has an office entrance to no 5 in St John Street, then two window bays to shop, corner entrance and one more window bay to south, followed by shop front to no 3. The piers between have bases of pink polished granite, with pilasters supporting narrow entablatures, the whole of deliberately original design influenced by Art Nouveau; fascia and cornice; good original doorcase to office and shop entrance on no 5 with panelled doors of original design. Upper windows are flat-arched with simply moulded stone architraves, the south front being treated with greater elaboration: stone bands between windows, corbelled balconies to third floor with corbelled cornice above and flush embattled parapet with scrolled ends influenced by Art Nouveau; two windows to fourth floor flanked by cartouches, one with the intials WH, gable with boar panel and finials. The chamfered corner is blank to the first and second floors; then it is treated as a massive chimneystack with thin ribs of angled brickwork rising from and ending in delicate stone ornament. The front to St John Street has similar windows to all floors, storey band above second floor, corbelled cornice and parapet, the parapet no longer flush, and hipped roof dormer behind.
Listing NGR: TQ3178681830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369274
- 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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