426-428, ST JOHN STREET, 357-363, GOSWELL ROAD
357-363, GOSWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298061
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 426-428, ST JOHN STREET, 357-363, GOSWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 357-363, GOSWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298061
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 426-428, ST JOHN STREET, 357-363, GOSWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 357-363, GOSWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- 426-428, 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:
- 357-363, GOSWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 426-428, 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 31470 83122
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3183SW GOSWELL ROAD 635-1/64/416 (South side) Nos.357-363 (Odd)
GV II
Includes: Nos.426-428 ST JOHN STREET. Commercial building. Occupyies prominent corner site opposite The Angel; former bank, offices and shops, now with shops below, offices above. 1880-1881. F. and H. Francis, architects and Merritt and Ashby, builders for Mr. McSheehan, developer. Upper floors with yellow and gold stock bricks laid in Flemish bond with stone and stucco dressings; ground-floor entrances and shopfronts of various materials including red sandstone, granite, and polished marble; parapet obscures roof, end-wall brick stacks. Late-Italianate style. Four storeys; 15-window range, 1:4:1:4:1:4. Upper floor bays articulated by single-storey height stucco pilasters to each floor, floors indicated by stucco panelling (1st floor), bracketed (2nd floor) and richly moulded (3rd floor) sill bands; floor heights and 1/1 sashes decrease in height as they go up. 1st and 2nd floors with pedimented tripartite pilastered windows to alternate bays; other bays each with four 1/1 eared architraved sashes. 3rd floor with simplified tripartite windows flanked by banded stucco and small empty niches; intervening bays with 1/1 sashes flanked by stucco pilasters. Wide entablature with carved frieze and bracketed projecting cornice; stucco parapet with stone coping, and higher curved parapet to corner reading '1880 BANK BUILDINGS'. Ground-floors: no. 357 of same Gothic-style treatment as no. 353-355 Goswell Road (q.v.); no. 359 with late C19 shopfront with recessed doorway on left and shop windows to right, granite piers with coupled bracketed-consoles support fascia and dentilled cornice; nos. 361-363 with partially altered shopfront and office entrances articulated by polished granite piers; wood panelled doors and shop windows over marble panels; no. 428 St. John Street with C20 shopfront and original piers; no. 426 St. John Street with altered (C20) remnants of C19 shopfront. (Saint, A.J.: Historian's Report London Division: 1988-1988: 1-3).
Listing NGR: TQ3147083122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368917
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A J, Historians Report London Division, (1988), 1-3
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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