14-16, COWCROSS STREET
14-16, COWCROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293088
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 14-16, COWCROSS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 14-16, COWCROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293088
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 14-16, COWCROSS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14-16, COWCROSS 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.
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:
- 14-16, COWCROSS 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 31714 81856
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3181NE COWCROSS STREET 635-1/77/345 (North side) Nos.14-16 (Consecutive)
GV II
Workshops. c.1870. Originally in multi-occupation, by druggists sundriesmen, infants' milliners and artificial flower manufacturers, so probably speculatively built. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stone, dressings of white brick and stone; roof obscured by parapet; internal construction of cast-iron columns, flitch plates and timber beams. Five storeys over basement, the fourth floor obscured by parapet; seven-window range. Ground floor faced with stone and divided into one broad bay flanked by two narrower ones: pilasters with foliage capitals supporting moulded segmental arches, the moulding turned through ninety degrees onto the impost; roundels of geometrical ornament in the spandrels; bracketed cornice; the right-hand bay has double doors flanked by pilasters, brackets of particularly original design, and sidelights; cornice over and overlight; the central and left-hand bays have cast-iron area grilles and round-arched glazing bars, the middle bay with double doors to the centre. Upper windows grouped 2-3-2, those to the first and second floors having segmental arches of gauged white brick with stone keystones and stone springing bands, the inner arches of the pairs and triplets carried on slim metal columns; the third floor windows round-arched with chamfered heads of gauged white brick; sills to second and third floors set on a band of angled brickwork. Fine stone modillion cornice set on a band of angled brickwork; high parapet. End stack. The interior preserves the main and simple lines of the original building intact apart from enclosed spaces round the staircase and single-storey additions to the rear: two ranks of cast-iron columns running parallel with the street front and carrying timber beams on all but the top floor; staircase with wreathed and ramped handrail, open string and stick balusters. (Letter from the occupants, Alan Baxter & Associates).
Listing NGR: TQ3171481856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368838
- 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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