Police Station
POLICE STATION, 76, KING'S CROSS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207691
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- POLICE STATION, 76, KING'S CROSS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207691
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLICE STATION, 76, KING'S CROSS 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:
- POLICE STATION, 76, KING'S CROSS 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 30831 82745
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3082NE KING'S CROSS ROAD 635-1/67/543 (East side) No.76 Police Station
GV II
Police Station. 1869-1870 by Thomas Charles Sorby, Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police. Stock bricks with Portland and Tilbury stone dressings to front elevation; projecting eaves to roof, material obscured; prominent brick stacks to bearing walls. Italianate style. Four storeys with basement and one-storey Welsh-slate hipped roof block breaking forward along the front right facade; 6-window range. Assymetrical double-fronted with irregular end bays breaking forward and 4-window range centrepiece in recess. Steps rise to slightly off-centre single-bay porch entrance with stone dressings, and bracketed cornice surmounted by elaborate stone sculpture with heraldic supporters, possibly of a later date. 6/6 sashes with brick and stone surrounds throughout, windows becoming shorter as they rise. Ornament in loose, almost brutal manner; stone and brick sill bands to upper floors. Lavish brick cornice beneath eaves. Built as Clerkenwell Police Station to replace an earlier station of 1842 part of which appears to remain attached to the Magistrates Court (q. v.). (Historians File, English Heritage, London Division: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3083182745
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369058
- 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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