Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SW SANS WALK
635-1/73/748 (North side)
Boundary wall, Kingsway College
Clerkenwell Centre

GV II

Wall. Incorporates considerable stretches of the boundary wall
of the former Middlesex House of Detention, 1847, repaired and
altered, especially in 1893 and 1902 as part of the boundary
wall to the former Hugh Myddelton Schools, and dated on the
inner faces of the entrances themselves. The wall extends
along the whole of the site in Skinner Street and in
Clerkenwell Close, and from the School Keeper's House (q.v.)
to the eastern end of the outbuilding of c.1892 (q.v.) in Sans
Walk. Brown and yellow brick, mostly laid in English bond;
tiled coping, and occasional brick piers capped with stone,
and buttresses to the inner sides; entrances for 'Special
Girls' and 'Girls and Infants' in Skinner Street, and for
'Girls and Infants' and 'Cookery & Laundry' in Clerkenwell
Close; all with stone architraves and wrought-iron gates.

Listing NGR: TQ3146582387

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084036

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)