3 AND 5, PRINCELET STREET
3 AND 5, PRINCELET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357543
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 5, PRINCELET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 5, PRINCELET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357543
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 5, PRINCELET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 AND 5, PRINCELET 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:
- 3 AND 5, PRINCELET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33786 81864
Details
THE FOLLOWING BUILDING SHALL BE ADDED:
PRINCELET STREET TQ 3381 NE 14/795 NOS 3 and 5.
II GV
2 terraced houses. Circa 1720 built by Marmaduke Smyth, refronted late C19. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings; No 3 ground floor painted. 3 storeys, garrets and basements. 3 windows each. No 3 - plain stucco surround with cornice to doorway; boarded over door, cornice-head and overlight. Rubbed red brick flat arches to cambered sashes. Parapet behind which the garret with C20 metal framed casements and clad in corrugated sheeting. Rear considerably but not wholly rebuilt; fenestration intact. Interior - originally 2-room depth but dividing wall removed; front room has considerable amount of panelling, partial survival of box cornice and in the south-east corner, a slightly later fitted china cupboard with scallopped shelving. Original dog leg stair with Doric newels, column on vase balusters, moulded handrail and moulded closed string, all characteristic of Spitalfields houses of this period. Panelling on some stairwell walls. Mostly original doorcases and some original doors. 1st floor with panelling covered by wallpaper; 2nd floor probably also with covered panelling, front room with mid C19 marble fireplace having fluted console brackets supporting mantelshelf. Original roof timbers with scored construction lines visible. No 5 - exterior similar to No 3; stucco door surround with console brackets supporting cornice. Garret with original weatherboarding. Rear retains original privy with panelled door; C20 sanitary fittings. Interior - similar stair and stairwell to No 3; hall with arch having moulded architrave and keystone. Rooms with panelling and cornices. Garret, unusually for Spitalfields, has windows on 2 walls. Survey of London, Vol XXVII (1957).
Listing NGR: TQ3378281874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206518
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - Spitalfields and Mile End New Town Parishes of Christ Church and All Saints and the liberties of Norton Folgate and the Old Artillery Ground:Volume 27, (1957)
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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