Haqqani House Sufi Centre And Adjoining Boundary Wall And Gates

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SK38NW VINCENT ROAD 784-1/5/737 (West side) 05/01/93 Haqqani House Sufi Centre and adjoining boundary wall and gates (Formerly Listed as: VINCENT ROAD Former Christian Science Church and adjoining boundary walls and gates)

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Christian Science church, now Sufi centre, and adjoining boundary walls and railings. c1890. Red brick with moulded brick dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, stepped eaves, coped gables with finials. 2 storeys plus basement. 10 x 10 windows. Triangular corner site. Round corner tower, 3 storeys, has machicolated eaves and conical roof topped with a round wooden bell turret with latticework lead roof. Graduated triple lancet on each floor, the larger upper windows with linked hoodmoulds. Each triple lancet is flanked by single lancets in the same style. Right return has a projecting gable with graduated triple lancet, and below, 3 flat-headed windows. On either side, 2 single lancets, and below, to right, 2 windows. To left, a doorway with double doors and 2 small lancets above it. Beyond, to right, a hipped bay with 2 double lancets, with staggered lights and hoodmoulds. Below, 4 windows. Beyond again, a hipped porch, approached by external stairs with spearhead railing, with pointed arched glazed door and fanlight under a hoodmould. Left return is of the same design, with 2 ground floor windows to the right of the projecting bay. INTERIOR: largely original interior has single space with arch braced roof. At the front, matchboard dais, rectangular pulpit and choir stalls, and above and behind them, organ case. At the rear, a panelled gallery. Below it, 2 doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, a brick boundary wall with stepped chamfered ashlar coping, topped with spearhead railing. At the rounded corner, a pair of square panelled gate piers with moulded caps and wrought-iron gate. Adjoining the steps to the porches, a similar gateway.

Listing NGR: SK3484285351