1 AND 2, HILLDROP ROAD
1 AND 2, HILLDROP ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279707
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, HILLDROP ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, HILLDROP ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279707
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, HILLDROP ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, HILLDROP ROAD
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:
- 1 AND 2, HILLDROP ROAD
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 29971 85297
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ2985SE HILLDROP ROAD 635-1/34/502 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.1 AND 2 (Formerly Listed as: CAMDEN ROAD Baptist Church)
II
Former Baptist Church and church hall, now hostel. c.1853-4 by C.G.Searle. Dressed Kentish ragstone with stone dressings, roof of artificial slate. Nave and chancel under a single roof with linked two-storey hall at east end, and two octagonal towers at the west end. North and south elevations of five-and-a-half bays with pointed-arched windows of three lights with two transoms, trefoil-headed lights and rectilinear tracery, the windows flanked by gabled buttresses with offsets; the westernmost bay has a four-centred-arched entrance with a pointed-arched window of two lights above. The west end has a central entrance under a four-centred arch with engaged columns and foliage capitals, and foliage mouldings to the archivolt; ogee hoodmould with quatrefoil to tympanum; four-centred-arched window above with six lights and one transom, trefoil-headed lights and rectilinear tracery; two flanking octagonal towers with four-centred arch to ground floor entrance, trefoiled lancets above, and original roofs missing; storey band at first floor and gable level; central gable with openwork parapet and corbelled pinnacle to apex. The attached wing at the east end has a single-storey gabled porch with four-centred arch to entrance, two-window range linking block above with parapet, and two-storey gabled wing, formerly the church hall: the elevation to Hilldrop Road has flat-arched three-light windows to two storeys with top lights and walls of dressed Kentish ragstone, the other sides of yellow brick. The interior of the church was almost completely altered for the purposes of a hostel in 1990, but retains an original staircase with iron rail and balusters in the linking wing, and two quasi-king-post roof trusses with cusped beams visible at the west end of the church.
Listing NGR: TQ2997185297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369013
- 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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