Numbers 353-355 (Odd) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 353-355 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 353-355, GOSWELLL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292490
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 353-355 (Odd) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 353-355 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 353-355, GOSWELLL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292490
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 353-355 (Odd) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 353-355 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 353-355, GOSWELLL ROAD
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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:
- NUMBERS 353-355 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 353-355, GOSWELLL 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 31487 83117
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3183SW GOSWELL ROAD 635-1/64/415 (South side) Nos.353-355 (Odd) and attached railings
GV II
Offices, formerly institutional building. Dated 1883, probably by Arthur Blomfield's office; G S Williams, builder. Upper floors of front faced in finely-cut rubbed red brick with red sandstone (Mansfield or Dumfries) oriel window and dressings; ground-floor of sandstone with polished marble columns, antae and dressings, tile-hung gabled roof with cresting to ridge and intersecting gabled dormer, exposed brick stacks to left side. Lobby-entrance plan. Gothic Revival style. Three storeys with basement and attic; 5-window range, 1:3:1. Windows diminish in height as they go up. Slightly curved front; gabled 3-bay oriel window projects from centre bay at 1st-storey level and continues up into attic; single sashes to outer bays. Small dated shield reading '1883' flanked by low relief foliate carving to corbel table. 1st floor: pointed archivolted arches to plain casement stone-transomed sashes surmounted by glazed lunette windows. Decorative low-relief carving to surfaces between arch springs of lunette windows in oriel; moulded stone cornice above 1st floor. Several courses of rubbed bricks indicate division between 1st and second floors. 2nd floor moulded stone sill band beneath stylized flat-arched horned 1/1 sashes; oriel bay sashes with archivolts and concave circular motif to lunettes. Heavily moulded stone cornice to 2nd floor. Outer bays of attic with pierced-stone parapets with stone coping. To centre: gabled attic oriel articulated by end piers with small sphere tops; and, in between, stone wall with blind lancet-arched niches continues in line with parapets; above, moulded stone sill band to three 1/1 stylized flat-arched sashes surmounted by a cornice. Low relief Gothic style carving within peak of gable; top surmounted by Gothic style finial and stone coping. Ground-floor with 3 pointed archivolted-arches in deep recess: arches supported by engaged columns to centre and antae to ends, all with crocket capitals; low relief carving in rich Gothic pattern to wall surface between archivolts; centre opening with 5-panelled raised-and-fielded double doors, moulded wood transom, and lunette window with pierced curvilinear wrought-ironwork; flanking sashes with fixed glazing and stone sills over blind segmental-arched basement openings with wrought-iron grilles. Elaborate moulded stone cornice to ground-floor which extends from corbel table of oriel window. (Historians File, English Heritage, London Division: 1988-).
Listing NGR: TQ3148783117
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368916
- 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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