26 AND 27, COWCROSS STREET
26 AND 27, COWCROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298046
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 27, COWCROSS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26 AND 27, COWCROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298046
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 27, COWCROSS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26 AND 27, 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:
- 26 AND 27, 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 31663 81855
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3181NE COWCROSS STREET 635-1/77/346 (North side) Nos.26 AND 27
GV II
Workshops or warehouse. 1879, by Thomas Milbourn, with ground-floor entrance of c.1925. Red brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of blue and yellow brick, terracotta, stone and tiles; roof obscured by parapet. Four storeys, four-window range. On the ground floor, only the fascia survives and the flat-arched entrance to the left, faced with ashlar and decorated with broad panels of fluting and wrought-iron work to grilles, overlight and door; the rest demolished at time of survey. Upper windows have shallow straight-sided pointed arches of stone, the chamfered faces decorated with dogtooth ornament; over the window-heads are pointed-arched panels whose varied ornament in different more or less integral materials is the particular feature of the building: to the first floor, bands of blue, red and yellow brick, horizontal to the outer windows, diagonal to the inner; to the second floor, bands of moulded terracotta ornament against blue brick to outer windows, octagonal tiles to inner; the six-windowed third floor has terracotta decoration to the outer windows, then two of tiles,then two of terracotta; all windows divided into two straight-sided pointed arches with slim metal columns, except for second-floor right-hand window. Moulded sill bands to second and third floors; openwork stone quatrefoils in spandrels between windows; continuous arcade of relieving arches in brick and stone to parapet. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3166381855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368839
- 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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