Number 27, 29 and 31 and Attached Railings

NUMBER 27, 29 AND 31 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 27, 29 AND 31, AMWELL STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281302
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
Number 27, 29 and 31 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 27, 29 AND 31 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 27, 29 AND 31, AMWELL STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281302
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
Number 27, 29 and 31 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 27, 29 AND 31 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 27, 29 AND 31, AMWELL 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 27, 29 AND 31 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 27, 29 AND 31, AMWELL STREET

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 31174 82785

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW AMWELL STREET 635-1/68/31 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.27, 29 AND 31 and attached railings

GV II

Includes: No.24 LLOYD BAKER STREET. Four terraced houses. 1828-1829 by William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River Estate; C19 shopfronts; major alterations by Islington Council c.1990 including complete reworking of ground-floor elevations to nos. 27-29. Multi-coloured stock brick set in Flemish bond with banded stucco ground-floor to nos. 27-29, wooden and glazed-brick shopfronts to nos. 31 Amwell Street and no. 24 Lloyd Baker Street, and stucco dressings; roofs obscured, party-wall brick stacks. Side-hall entrance plan to nos. 27-29 and ground-floor shop with domestic upper floors to nos. 31 Amwell and 24 Lloyd Baker Streets. Three storeys with basement (no. 24 Lloyd Baker Street with 1 storey side-entrance extension); 2 windows each. Low steps rise to entrance of nos. 27-29 (no. 29 round-arched): all c.1990 details to ground-floor. Mid to late C19 shopfront to others: no. 31 with shop door to right and windows to left and 24 Lloyd Baker Street with corner shop entrance flanked by shop windows and house entrance to right-hand return wall; both shopfronts articulated by console-bracketed pilasters supporting fascia and cornice. Gauged-brick flat arches with 6/6 sashes to upper floors; 1st floor stucco sill band beneath full-length sashes set in arched brick recesses with continuous cast-iron bracketed balcony the length of nos. 27 & 29 with Gothic pattern to railings. Significant rebuilding to upper floors. All with plain brick parapet with stone coping (no. 29 irregular); stucco cornice and band to no. 24 Lloyd Baker Street. Attached cast-iron railings.

Listing NGR: TQ3117482785

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
368517
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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