MECCA BINGO

MECCA BINGO, 161-169, ESSEX ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1292870
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: MECCA BINGO
Statutory Address:: MECCA BINGO, 161-169, ESSEX ROAD

User submitted image — Uploaded by Kathryn Jones This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2005-10-03
Reference:: IOE01/13995/13
Rights:: © Mr John Bird. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1292870
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: MECCA BINGO
Statutory Address 1:: MECCA BINGO, 161-169, ESSEX ROAD

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: MECCA BINGO, 161-169, ESSEX 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 32057 84103

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3284SW ESSEX ROAD 635-1/54/382 (West side) 16/01/74 Nos.161-169 (Odd) Mecca Bingo

II

Shall be replaced by:

635-1/54/382 ESSEX ROAD 16-JAN-1974 (West side) Nos. 161-169 (odd) Mecca Bingo II*

Formerly listed as: ESSEX ROAD (west side) Nos. 161-169 (odd) ABC Cinema

Built as the Carlton Cinema, now a bingo hall. 1930 by George Coles. Black, white and coloured faience to the Essex Road front, the rest of yellow brick; roof of slate. The facade to Essex Road is in the Egyptian style; the interior is neo-Classical in style with occasional Egyptian references. Plinth of black faience, the rest of the undecorated wall surfaces to Essex Road in white faience; broad central entrance with seven pairs of doors with bevelled glazing, and canopy which could be original though at present partly masked. Lower, projecting wings to either side in the form of pylons with hollow and roll cornice and a central window with sloping sides and architrave of yellow faience. A frieze of stylised lotus flowers and pyramid patterns in coloured faience runs across both wings above the ground floor and across the central, higher part which has a recessed centre framing two massive columns with bud capitals; five-window range within the lower part of the recess, the central window framed by two smaller columns; the upper part has architraves to five blank windows, perhaps not original; hollow and roll cornice. INTERIOR: : the walls of the entrance hall have pilasters with panels of neo-Classical ornament between, an anthemion frieze, dentil cornice, and coffered ceiling. Crush hall has pilasters and engaged columns with palm-leaf capitals, panels of neo-Classical ornament and plasterwork to the ceiling in the same style. Two-tier auditorium with the seating of the lower tier, and probably also the wall decoration below the upper tier, altered for bingo purposes. The original wall-decoration survives to the front of the auditorium, and consists of a plinth, rusticated base, a three-bay, blank, balustraded arcade of Corinthian columns carrying a frieze of scrolling ornament and modillion cornice; broad rusticated piers to either side with urns in niches; coved ceiling with ventilation grilles and bands of bayleaf and guilloche ornament; shallow dome. Proscenium arch with a broad band of scrolling ornament and false curtain. The scheme of original ornament is carried into the front of the upper tier with a three-bay, vaulted, blank arcade to either side, and three doors at the back with architrave, decorative frieze and cornice; the gallery-front of the upper tier is decorated with lyre patterns in panels.

Listing NGR: TQ3205784103

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 368882
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.