CELLS, FORMER HOUSE OF DETENTION, KINGSWAY COLLEGE CLERKENWELL CLOSE

CELLS, FORMER HOUSE OF DETENTION, KINGSWAY COLLEGE CLERKENWELL CLOSE, SANS WALK

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297973
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: CELLS, FORMER HOUSE OF DETENTION, KINGSWAY COLLEGE CLERKENWELL CLOSE
Statutory Address:: CELLS, FORMER HOUSE OF DETENTION, KINGSWAY COLLEGE CLERKENWELL CLOSE, SANS WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297973
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: CELLS, FORMER HOUSE OF DETENTION, KINGSWAY COLLEGE CLERKENWELL CLOSE
Statutory Address 1:: CELLS, FORMER HOUSE OF DETENTION, KINGSWAY COLLEGE CLERKENWELL CLOSE, SANS WALK

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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CELLS, FORMER HOUSE OF DETENTION, KINGSWAY COLLEGE CLERKENWELL CLOSE, SANS WALK

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 31459 82348

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SE SANS WALK 635-1/73/755 (North side) Cells, former House of Detention, Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre

GV II

Group of cells. South-west of the former Hugh Myddelton Schools, originally part of the male corridor of the Middlesex House of Detention. 1845-7. By William Moseley. Brick laid in English bond, shallow-arched ceiling of brick, partly carried on cast-iron columns and wrought-iron beams with cross braces; stone floor; five bays of unequal width; seven cells to the north, three to the south, most with flat-arched entrances. These cells relate to the rest of the surviving prison, included as part of former House of Detention, below Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre (q.v.) (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3145982348

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Legacy System number:: 369332
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.