295 AND 297, PENTONVILLE ROAD (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1997. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
295 AND 297, PENTONVILLE ROAD (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- silver-roof-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1997
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CAMDEN
TQ3082NW GRAY'S INN ROAD 798-1/90/655 (North side) 06/05/97 Nos.378 AND 380
GV II
Includes: Nos.295 AND 297 PENTONVILLE ROAD. "Flat iron" block of shops with offices over, prominently situated at the junction of Gray's Inn Road and Pentonville Road. c1875. Built to replace buildings destroyed in the construction of the Metropolitan Railway. Brick with stucco dressings. Triangular plan with rounded apex. Shop fronts mostly altered. Upper floors have architraved sashes: 1st floor with keystones and console-bracketed pediments, 2nd floor with bracketed sills, keystones and console-bracketed cornices, 3rd floor with keystones. Continuous sill band formed by a deep, projecting, bracketed cornice. Above the 3rd floor windows a further cornice and blocking course, surmounted at the apex by a tall lead-sheathed tower, sometimes said to have been for spotting fires, with a cast-iron balcony at half-height, oculus and cornice capped by a small ribbed dome with weathervane finial. INTERIOR: not inspected. "The Lighthouse Building" forms an important local landmark.
CAMDEN
TQ3082NW PENTONVILLE ROAD 798-1/90/655 Nos.295 AND 297 06/05/97
GV II
See under: Nos.378 AND 380 GRAY'S INN ROAD.
Listing NGR: TQ3037082984
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