1-23, COLLEGE CROSS
1-23, COLLEGE CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208239
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1-23, COLLEGE CROSS
- Statutory Address:
- 1-23, COLLEGE CROSS
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03555/12
- Rights:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208239
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 1-23, COLLEGE CROSS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-23, COLLEGE CROSS
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:
- 1-23, COLLEGE CROSS
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 31500 84193
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3184SE COLLEGE CROSS 635-1/53/328 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.1-23 (Odd) (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE CROSS Nos.1-5 (Odd)) (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE CROSS Nos.7-19 (Odd)) (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE CROSS Nos.21-23 (Odd))
GV II
Terraced houses. 1836-43. Built by T.Pearson. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs of tiles and Welsh and artificial slate, so far as visible. Three storeys over basement, some houses with dormers in attic; two windows each. Nos 1-3, 11-13 and 21-23 set slightly forward. Basement and ground floor stuccoed, ground floor decorated with banded rustication. Segmental-arched entrance with pilasters, fanlight with decorative glazing and panelled door of original design; all windows flat-arched, those to first and second floors with heads of gauged brick, those to the first floor being of piano nobile proportions with individual cast-iron balconies; sashes of original design throughout; cornice and blocking course; stacks to party walls. Features of individual houses are: no 1 has side entrance in Barnsbury Street with stuccoed architrave of Doric pilasters and entablature, and fluted quarter-columns to doorcase; gable end treated as pediment, with one flat-arched window in it; nos 3, 5 and 7 have flat-arched dormers in attic; no 11 lacks cornice, has been extensively rebuilt and has a dormer in roof; nos 13-15 have brickwork of upper floors painted and lack cornices; no 21 has a flat-arched dormer; no 23 has a two-storey entrance bay to right-hand return, with segmental-arched entrance having moulded architrave, pilasters, fanlight and panelled door of original design, flanked by two pointed-arched windows with moulded architraves, the first floor probably added with stucco cornice and blocking course; staircase wing with additional entrance added to rear. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3150084193
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368821
- 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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