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Latitude: 51.5236 / 51°31'25"N
Longitude: -0.0972 / 0°5'50"W
OS Eastings: 532102
OS Northings: 182238
OS Grid: TQ321822
Mapcode National: GBR Q8.90
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.8YGW
Plus Code: 9C3XGWF3+C4
Entry Name: 20-24, Old Street
Listing Date: 12 October 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1195699
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369188
ID on this website: 101195699
Location: St Luke's, Islington, London, EC1V
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: Bunhill
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Giles Cripplegate
Church of England Diocese: London
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ISLINGTON
TQ3282SW OLD STREET
635-1/75/672 (South side)
12/10/78 Nos.20-24 (Even)
II
Workshops. The seven-bay range to the east designed in 1880 by
Ford and Hesketh for Samuel Haskins, manufacturer of window
blinds and revolving shutters; the six bays to the west added
in 1896-98 by the same architects. Cast iron, Portland stone
and presumably brick, roof obscured by parapet. Five storeys,
thirteen-window range. The two ranges of the Old Street front
are flanked by Portland stone panelled piers; the front is
articulated by cast iron arcades consisting of engaged columns
with spiral and vertical fluting and foliage capitals, and
quatrefoil openwork in the spandrels. Ground floor has late
C20 front behind original metal arcade in the form of
round-arched entrance with extended basket arches on either
side.The upper floors are identical and are articulated by
round-arched arcades each carrying a Portland stone
entablature on which the next arcade rests; moulded stone
cornice. Herbert Ford was a specialist in warehouse design and
at his death in 1903 was said to have designed four hundred
warehouses in London.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3210282238
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