6 AND 8, GARDEN WALK EC2, 32-38, RIVINGTON STREET

32-38, RIVINGTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226750
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1975
List Entry Name:: 6 AND 8, GARDEN WALK EC2, 32-38, RIVINGTON STREET
Statutory Address:: 32-38, RIVINGTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226750
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1975
List Entry Name:: 6 AND 8, GARDEN WALK EC2, 32-38, RIVINGTON STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 32-38, RIVINGTON STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 6 AND 8, GARDEN WALK EC2

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 32-38, RIVINGTON STREET
Statutory Address:: 6 AND 8, GARDEN WALK EC2

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hackney (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 33176 82517

Details

In the entry for: GARDEN WALK TQ 3382 35/212 (east side) 35/212 Nos 6 and 8 The description shall be amended to read:

Including No 32 Rivington Street. Shoreditch electricity generating sub-station. Built 1905-7 by LCC architects (probably Vincent Harris) to serve LCC tramway system. Brown stock brick with stone cornices and parapet copings, Mannerist classical style. One storey with attics; long frontage of 7 sections has plain walls with rusticated brick quoining. Stone impost band connects 3 large round- arched windows to central section, flanked by taller slightly projecting bays with tall round entrance arches and segmental concave parapets. Beyond these are lower sections with 5-light attic stories above double entry to right and 3-window range to left; rusticated end bays with 12-pane sashes complete the composition. That on left returns into Rivington Street; its facade has blank outer bays with parapet continued as impost band to tall round-arched entrance set in rusticated, project- ing centrepiece with ramped parapets.

------------------------------------ In the entry for:

GARDEN WALK EC2 1. 5013 (east side) --------------- TQ 3382 35/212 Nos. 6 & 8 II the first sentence of the description shall be amended to read 'Including nos. 32-38 Rivington Street'.

This amendment is further to the 22nd amendment of the 21st list.

---------------------------------------------------- In the entry for: 1. 5013 RIVINGTON STREET EC2 (south side) -------------------- TQ 3382 35/212 No. 32 II

the address shall be amended to read nos. 32-38.

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GARDEN WALK EC2 1. 5013 (East Side) --------------- Nos 6 & 8 TQ 3332 35/212 II

2. Including No 32 Rivington Street. Mid C19 warehouse building of 1 tall storey with attics. Stock brick with stone cornices and parapet copings. Long frontage of 7 sections, plain walls alternating with rusticated brick. Centre 3 big round-arched windows with stone impost band. Flanking this are taller slightly projecting bays with tall round entrance arches and segmental concave parapets, Beyond these are 3-window sections with a 5-light attic storey; and rusticated end bays complete the composition. That on left returns into Rivington Street whose facade shows blank outer bays flanking a rusticated, projecting centrepiece with high round-arched entrance and double raised parapet.

Listing NGR: TQ3317682526

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Legacy System number:: 423972
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.