No. 37 SPITAL SQUARE (INCLUDING RAILINGS)
37 SPITAL SQUARE E1, AREA RAILINGS AT NO 37
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242060
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- No. 37 SPITAL SQUARE (INCLUDING RAILINGS)
- Statutory Address:
- 37 SPITAL SQUARE E1, AREA RAILINGS AT NO 37
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242060
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- No. 37 SPITAL SQUARE (INCLUDING RAILINGS)
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37 SPITAL SQUARE E1, AREA RAILINGS AT NO 37
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:
- 37 SPITAL SQUARE E1, AREA RAILINGS AT NO 37
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33418 81902
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/05/2017
TQ 3381,
14/453
SPITAL SQUARE E1 (South Side),
No. 37 (including railings)
(Formerly listed as: No. 37, area railings at No. 37)
GV
II
C18, probably reconstructed circa mid C18 (Survey of London, page 72, Vol. XXVII).
Brown brick, tiled mansard roof behind parapet. Three storeys, basement and dormers.
Three windows, most glazing bars missing. Windows have gauged flat-arched heads and are recessed. Wooden doorcase with architrave, carved brackets and cornice. Panelled interior, stairs with turned baluster and shaped ends approached through Doric archway. Wrought iron area railings (damaged).
No 37 and the Street Lamp Standard form a group with the buildings and walls
of the Central Foundation School for Girls.
Listing NGR: TQ3341881902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206246
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - Spitalfields and Mile End New Town Parishes of Christ Church and All Saints and the liberties of Norton Folgate and the Old Artillery Ground:Volume 27, (1957), 72
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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