Finsbury Barracks and Attached Railings
FINSBURY BARRACKS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207595
- Date first listed:
- 28-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Finsbury Barracks and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- FINSBURY BARRACKS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CITY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207595
- Date first listed:
- 28-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Finsbury Barracks and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- FINSBURY BARRACKS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CITY 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:
- FINSBURY BARRACKS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CITY 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 32777 82192
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3282SE CITY ROAD 635-1/76/261 (West side) 28/12/90 Finsbury Barracks and attached railings
GV II
Barrack buildings for the Honourable Artillery Company. 1857. By Joseph A. Jennings. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings, roof obscured by parapet. Three and four storeys over basement, eleven-window range to City Road. The building is castellated in style, with Tudor details. Projecting centrepiece of three bays, designed as two four-storey towers flanking the entrance, with wings of four bays on either side, terminating in corner towers. The central segmental-pointed-arched entrance, with two-storey mullioned-and-transomed segmental-pointed-arched window over, is set in a recess in the centrepiece under a similar arch; the middle stage of the window consists of blank panels with carved coat of arms. For the rest, the windows are all flat-arched and generally of two and three lights, bartizans to the corner towers, the centrepiece and bartizans machicolated, the ranges between corbelled. In addition to the common chimneystacks which are rectangular in plan, there are two to the centrepiece and linked pairs to each of the corner towers which are octagonal and faced with ashlar. The north and south returns continue the elevational treatment, with an eight-window range to the north and seven-window range to the south; except that at the fourth bay the front is recessed in plan on a chamfer and the parapet ceases to be embattled, and that the window details are simpler. Cast-iron railings and gates with double rail, coat of arms of the Honourable Artillery Company on the standards, and spearhead finials.
Listing NGR: TQ3277782178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368749
- 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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