56A, HIGHBURY GROVE
56A, HIGHBURY GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298032
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 56A, HIGHBURY GROVE
- Statutory Address:
- 56A, HIGHBURY GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298032
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 56A, HIGHBURY GROVE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56A, HIGHBURY GROVE
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:
- 56A, HIGHBURY GROVE
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:
- TQ3205285468
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3285SW HIGHBURY GROVE
635-1/39/457 (East side)
27/07/88 No.56A
II
Balloon-making workshop, now a garage. Built c.1900 for the
Spencer brothers. Brick set in English bond, roof of
corrugated steel. One storey, open plan. Gabled east and west
ends; on the south side six windows (two blocked) and two
doors (both blocked), all with replacement lintels; east end
has central flat-arched entrance with gauged brick head and
two flanking flat-arched windows with gauged brick heads;
north side has six windows, three with cambered-arched heads,
three with replacement lintels, and two entrances now blocked;
the west end now partly rendered with several new openings and
a large works entry of late C20 date. Roof of semi-circular
form carried on eight iron sickle-girders; the crown of the
roof having a glazed lantern running most of the length of the
building.
INTERIOR: has glazed white and brown brick to dado, and
partitions to west end.
The Spencer brothers were pioneering aeronauts of the late C19
and were noted for their work in perfecting the design of the
parachute and balloon. In 1900 Stanley Spencer constructed one
of the first hydrogen-filled balloons, or airships. Of these
he is counted a pioneer, along with Count Von Zeppelin and the
Brazilian Santos-Dumont.
(J.M.Bacon: The Dominion of the Air: 1902-: PP.338-9).
Listing NGR: TQ3205285468
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368967
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bacon, J M, The Dominion of the Air, (1902), 338-9
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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