53 AND 55, CANONBURY PARK SOUTH

53 AND 55, CANONBURY PARK SOUTH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298089
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
53 AND 55, CANONBURY PARK SOUTH
Statutory Address:
53 AND 55, CANONBURY PARK SOUTH
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298089
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
53 AND 55, CANONBURY PARK SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:
53 AND 55, CANONBURY PARK SOUTH

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
53 AND 55, CANONBURY PARK SOUTH

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 32289 84768

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3284NW CANONBURY PARK SOUTH 635-1/47/162 (West side) Nos.53 AND 55

GV II

Semi-detached houses. c.1845. Developed by C.H.Hill. Yellow brick, stucco and roof of slate. Two storeys over basement, each house two bays wide. Basement stuccoed. Steps up to entrance with architrave, cornice on consoles, panelled door and overlight. The inner bay of each house stands forward of the wall by the thickness of one brick. All windows flat-arched with gauged-brick heads and sashes with margin lights. Cast-iron window-guards to ground floor window on both houses. Cornice of angled bricks, enclosed eaves. Party wall expressed above roof and carrying central stack. Hipped roof, dormers to both houses. Round-arched first-floor windows to side of both houses, that to no 55 with radiating glazing bars. (Eric Willatts: Streets with a story. The book of Islington: London: 1986-).

Listing NGR: TQ3228984768

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Legacy System number:
368652
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Willatts, E, Streets with a story The book of Islington London, (1986)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 53 AND 55, CANONBURY PARK SOUTH

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