34 AND 36, ST JOHN STREET
34 AND 36, ST JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298005
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 34 AND 36, ST JOHN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 34 AND 36, ST JOHN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298005
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 34 AND 36, ST JOHN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34 AND 36, ST JOHN 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:
- 34 AND 36, ST JOHN 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 31826 81913
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3181NE ST JOHN STREET 635-1/77/784 (East side) 20/12/91 Nos.34 AND 36
GV II
Warehouse of George Farmiloe and Sons Ltd, lead and glass merchants. 1868 by Isaacs. Yellow brick and granite with stucco to the ground floor and stucco dressings; roof obscured by parapet. Four storeys over basement, seven-window range. Eclectic in style. The central section, of three-window range, is slightly recessed. Plinth of polished granite, rustication to ground floor, continued as quoins either side of the wings. Central round-arched entrance with springing band, archivolt, head keystone, and five-sided arched hoodmould; stepped, segmental-arched windows immediately to either side, and broad elliptical-arched openings beyond that with head keystones, that to the left divided into two round arches by a cast-iron column with openwork decoration to the spandrels, that to the right a carriage entrance with ornate iron gates; fascia with sunk Roman letters 'LEAD & GLASS/GEORGE FARMILOE & SONS LIMITED/MERCHANTS'; cornice interrupted by corbelled and pedimented stops with Farmiloe's monogram in roundels. First-floor windows flat-arched with round-arched panels above, scrolled keystones, and decorative tympana, the central window having a central column of polished granite; second- and third-floor windows have segmental arches recessed under a flat arch with springing band, upper part of an architrave and decorative keystone; except that the central window on both floors has a flat arch and central column of polished granite, that to the second floor set under a segmental bracketed canopy, that to third floor under a round arch; dentil cornice between second and third floor. Entablature, the cornice supported by single brackets in the centre and single and paired brackets alternately on the wings; blocking course. INTERIOR reported as retaining fine staircase and panelled boardrooms. To the rear is a further range of 4 storeys and 5 bays with cast-iron galleries linking the two on several floors.
Listing NGR: TQ3185681929
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369280
- 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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