12, HELMET ROW
12, HELMET ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298026
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 12, HELMET ROW
- Statutory Address:
- 12, HELMET ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298026
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 12, HELMET ROW
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, HELMET ROW
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:
- 12, HELMET ROW
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 32274 82432
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3282SW HELMET ROW 635-1/75/442 (West side) 29/12/50 No.12 (Formerly Listed as: HELMET ROW St Luke's Rectory)
GV II
Formerly St Luke's Rectory, now offices. Dated 1774 in rainwater head to left side of Helmet Row front; later additions. Multicoloured brick to main building set in Flemish bond, with yellow brick set in Flemish bond to added south-west wing, stucco; roof of slate. Three storeys over basement, five-window range to Helmet Row, three-window range to Mitchell Street. Entrance in Mitchell Street with Ionic pilasters against a background of rustication supporting entablature with partly pulvinated and enriched frieze; plain inset frame to doorcase with overlight. All other openings to Mitchell Street have segmental arches with gauged brick heads and are blank. The Helmet Row front has a five-sided, single-storey bay added in yellow brick in place of the two left-hand openings on the ground floor, and a lower segmental-arched window next to it; other windows all segmental-arched with heads of gauged red brick, and 6/6 sashes of original design to the two right-hand windows of the ground floor and two left-hand windows on the first and second floors. Parapet; triple hipped roof. Three-storey wing to south-west with segmental-arched windows, probably of mid-C19 date. INTERIOR: : ground-floor north room on Helmet Row front is panelled with moulded cornice, mid-C19 marble fireplace with late C19 cast iron grate; the neighbouring south room panelled with moulded cornice and fireplace of uncertain date; ground-floor room in south-west wing has mid-C19, faintly Gothic architraves to windows and door. On the first floor the rooms to Helmet Row are panelled with cornices, that to north with eared fireplace surround; on the second floor, the rooms to Helmet Row have panelled dados and segmental-arched fireplace surrounds.
Listing NGR: TQ3227482432
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368950
- 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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