75 AND 75A, UPPER STREET
75 AND 75A, UPPER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209656
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 75 AND 75A, UPPER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 75 AND 75A, UPPER STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209656
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 75 AND 75A, UPPER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 75 AND 75A, UPPER 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:
- 75 AND 75A, UPPER 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 31612 83646
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3183NE UPPER STREET 635-1/59/869 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.75 AND 75A
II
Terraced house and entrance wing to former cinema, the Electric Theatre. The original house mid-C18, the cinema 1908-9. Brick, and presumably stone rendered with stucco or painted, roof of clay tiles. Three storeys with dormer, four-window range. The front wing consists of squat columns supporting a massive elliptical arch to Upper Street and a pair of round arches with keystones to St Alban's Place; parapet with balustrade and hemispherical dome surmounted by a female figure, on her head the massive socket to a globe of electric light, now lost. The original house is set back, with a flat-arched passage to St Alban's Place to the south. The first and second floors have flat-arched windows with moulded stucco architraves and storey bands between floors; parapet. Hipped roof with one dormer. The cinema was opened by Electric Theatres (1908) Ltd, the first company to establish a chain of cinemas in London; the entrance wing is the earliest surviving portion of a cinema in London. (Chris Draper: Islington's cinemas and film studios).
Listing NGR: TQ3161283646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369398
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Draper, C, Islington's Cinemas and Film Studios, (1989)
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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