Numbers 1-5 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

389, CITY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208166
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
Numbers 1-5 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
389, CITY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208166
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
Numbers 1-5 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
389, CITY ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
NUMBERS 1-5 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-5, COLEBROOKE ROW

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
389, CITY ROAD
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 1-5 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-5, COLEBROOKE ROW

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 31619 83142

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3183SE COLEBROOKE ROW 635-1/65/315 (East side) 29/09/72 Nos.1-5 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Includes: No.389 CITY ROAD. Terraced houses. Nos 1-3 and 389 City Road c.1800, nos 4-5 c.1814. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco dressings, mansard roofs of Welsh and artificial slate. Four storeys over basement, two windows each; no 389 City Road has an additional double-fronted three-window range to City Road. Basement and ground floor of no 389 City Road stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with banded rustication. Round-arched entrance; engaged Greek Doric columns to no 389 City Road with cornice and fanlight; nos 1-5 Colebrooke Row have pilasters, with rosette stops to nos 1-2, none to no 3 and lion-head stops to nos 4-5; fanlight, with decorative glazing to nos 1-3; panelled doors of original design. Ground-floor windows round-arched, with gauged brick heads to nos 1-5; upper windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads; nos 389 City Road and 1-3 Colebrooke Row have a continuous bracketed balcony with iron railings to first floor; nos 4-5 Colebrooke Row have individual iron balconies and windows set in recessed round-arched panels with gauged brick heads. 6/6 sashes of original design, with radiating glazing bars to ground floor, to nos 1, 2 (ground and second floors), and 3. Parapet; dormers in roof; stacks to party walls. Cast-iron railings to area of nos 2 and 4-5; scrolled wrought-iron overthrow lampholder to nos 2-4.

Listing NGR: TQ3161983142

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
368808
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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