F Cooke's Eel, Pie and Mash Shop
F COOKE'S EEL, PIE AND MASH SHOP, 41, KINGSLAND HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235868
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1991
- List Entry Name:
- F Cooke's Eel, Pie and Mash Shop
- Statutory Address:
- F COOKE'S EEL, PIE AND MASH SHOP, 41, KINGSLAND HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235868
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1991
- List Entry Name:
- F Cooke's Eel, Pie and Mash Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- F COOKE'S EEL, PIE AND MASH SHOP, 41, KINGSLAND HIGH 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:
- F COOKE'S EEL, PIE AND MASH SHOP, 41, KINGSLAND HIGH STREET
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 33510 84955
Details
The following building shall be added:
KINGSLAND HIGH STREET TQ 3384 24/512 No 41 (F.Cooke's Eel, Pie & Mash Shop) II
Eel, Pie & mash shop, restaurant & dining room with accommodation over. Building 1902-3 by James Hood; shop & restaurant 1910; rear dining room 1936. Painted brick with stucco columns and dressings. 4 storeys. 3 bays. Renovated shop front of original central part-glazed doors with overlight flanked by large sashes, above marble risers, for the dispensing and display of eels. Gold lettered fascia between elaborate brackets, with octagonal 1930s lanterns on curved projecting brackets. Upper floors with pilasters to each floor at angles. 1st and 2nd floor, later windows set behind 4 column screens. 3rd floor bracketed cornice above which a shouldered architraved segmental headed window with large keystone projects into the pediment. Interior of shop and restaurant lined with glazed tiles; blue and green dado with. Art Nouveau Style frieze, cream walls with, to right, panels containing lozenges of Delft-type scenes of wherries and ketches harvesting the catch and, to left, large mirrors with later brass clips of entwined eels, blue patterned cornice frieze. Marble topped counter with corrugated metal front, marble topped tables and wooden benches all probably 1930s. entrance floor with mosaic inscribed "Cooke" with an eel slithering through the letters and beneath, a shell, inscribed "established 1862", set in waves. Archway to rear of restaurant leads to kitchen with stained glass panel depicting a monk with an eel in one of the double doors. To left, the dining room with beige and green tiled and mirrored walls; lit by 4 glass domes, partly of stained and patterned glass with enriched architraves in a panelled ceiling, and architraved lunettes with stained and patterned glass. Similar tables and benches to restaurant. A rare surviving example of a once common type of establishment in London.
Listing NGR: TQ3351084955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426736
- 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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