Pollocks Toy Museum

POLLOCKS TOY MUSEUM, 1, SCALA STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245857
Date first listed:
14-May-1974
List Entry Name:
Pollocks Toy Museum
Statutory Address:
POLLOCKS TOY MUSEUM, 1, SCALA STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245857
Date first listed:
14-May-1974
List Entry Name:
Pollocks Toy Museum
Statutory Address 1:
POLLOCKS TOY MUSEUM, 1, SCALA 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
POLLOCKS TOY MUSEUM, 1, SCALA STREET

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Camden (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 29471 81804

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2981NW SCALA STREET
798-1/98/1426 (North side)
14/05/74 No.1
Pollock's Toy Museum

II

Corner house, now a toy museum. c1767, altered. Brown brick,
upper storeys with later multi-coloured stock brick refacing.
Corrugated asbestos sheet mansard roof with dormer. 3 storeys,
attic and cellars. 2 windows with 2-window return (1 blind) to
Whitfield Street. Altered wooden doorcase to house door with
fluted pilasters and broken pediment over arch-headed
fanlight. Wooden double shopfront on corner with pilasters
carrying entablature with projecting cornice. Shop windows
altered. Half-glazed shop doorway; fanlight. Gauged red brick
segmental arches to recessed C20 windows. Parapet. Return with
sashes and gable with chimney-stack.
INTERIOR: retains some original features.



Listing NGR: TQ2947181804

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
477961
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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