26, Great Percy Street
26, GREAT PERCY STREET, LONDON, WC1X 9QP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298064
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 26, Great Percy Street
- Statutory Address:
- 26, GREAT PERCY STREET, LONDON, WC1X 9QP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298064
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 26, Great Percy Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, GREAT PERCY STREET, LONDON, WC1X 9QP
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, GREAT PERCY STREET, LONDON, WC1X 9QP
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 30993 82844
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/07/2017
TQ3082NE
635-1/67/430
ISLINGTON
GREAT PERCY STREET (South side)
No.26
(Formerly listed as No.26 Percy Arms public house)
29/09/72
GV
II
Former public house. Corner site. c.1850-1860, pub front altered. Yellow stock brick with chamfered rustication to ground floor and rusticated stucco dressings and quoins; stucco stacks; elaborate cornice to projecting eaves, roofing material obscured. Italianate Villa style. Pub to ground-floor with entrances to front (Great Percy Street) and side elevation (Cumberland Gardens); residential above.
Three storeys, with one-storey rear extension to Cumberland Gardens frontage; double-fronted with three-window range to front with left return of two-window range, the far bay breaking forward. First floor piano nobile with stucco sill band articulated as parapet to first floor architraved casement windows with balustrading below centre window and windows of return: front elevation and first bay of return with round-arched sashes with corniced-heads and very decorative fan pattern to typani; front centre and first sash of return in deep recess and flanked by pilasters with foliated, carved decoration to architraves; console-bracketed pedimented sash to second bay of return. Stucco Greek fret-band below second floor casement windows with eared architraves, cornices and bracketed sills. Elaborate moulded stucco cornice with circular patterned band below. Ground-floor rusticated pubfront with fascia, stucco cornice and rear extension with balustraded stucco parapet; openings altered.
INTERIOR: retains original barback.
Listing NGR: TQ3099382844
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368932
- 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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