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Numbers 113-117 (Odd) and Attached Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Clerkenwell, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5229 / 51°31'22"N

Longitude: -0.108 / 0°6'28"W

OS Eastings: 531354

OS Northings: 182140

OS Grid: TQ313821

Mapcode National: GBR M8.W7

Mapcode Global: VHGQT.2ZQF

Plus Code: 9C3XGVFR+5Q

Entry Name: Numbers 113-117 (Odd) and Attached Railings

Listing Date: 30 September 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1195591

English Heritage Legacy ID: 368894

Also known as: 113-117 (odd) Farringdon Road and attached railings, including 1-7 Ray Street

ID on this website: 101195591

Location: Clerkenwell, Islington, London, EC1R

County: London

District: Islington

Electoral Ward/Division: Clerkenwell

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Islington

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St James Clerkenwell

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description



ISLINGTON

TQ3182SW FARRINGDON ROAD
635-1/73/394 (West side)
Nos.113-117 (Odd)
and attached railings

GV II

Includes: Nos.1-7 RAY STREET.
Works and Foundry. Front block, 1864-1865; rear block, giant
stack and top storey all c.1875-1876. By Arding and Bond for J
and R M Wood (front block) and for V and J Figgins (rear
block), both typefounders. Buff brick set in Flemish bond with
spare use of stone dressings; roofs obscured by parapets,
bearing wall brick stacks and tapered giant attached rear
stack also of brick. Italianate Style. Six storeys; main
elevation front block (Farringdon Road) 3 bays wide (3:3:1),
side elevation front block (1 Ray Street) 1 bay wide (2-window
range); main elevation of rear block (3-7 Ray Street)
articulated as 3 bays (3:5:3) the centre-piece breaking
forward, side elevation rear block (Herbal Hill) of 4-window
range plus rear extensions (U-shaped plan) and stack; recessed
connecting wing between front and rear blocks in Ray Street of
1-window range. Front block: banded brick pilaster strips
extend full-height of building, corner rounded. Principal
elevation with recessed entrances to far left and to centre
bays; Ray Street elevation with entrance to right bay and to
connecting wing. Gauged-brick flat and segmental-arched
tripartite sashes with keystones throughout. Recessed brick
panels between 1st and 2nd and 3rd and 4th storeys. Stone sill
band to 3rd storey; modillioned cornice at 4th floor level;
stone coping to parapet. Ground-floor moulded keyed stone
hoods to segmental arched openings; modillioned stone cornice.
Iron-bracketed crane to Ray Street return wall at 1st-floor
level. Rear block: very similiar detailing to front block with
full-height banded brick pilaster strips to corners reading as
quoins. Ray Street elevation with paired entrances to
centrepiece (separated by 3 sashes) flanked by antae carrying
entablature extending the full-width of the centrepiece;
endpieces banded and rusticated with round-arched 6/6 sashes
with voussoirs; curved and radial glazing bars. 1st to 4th
floors with gauged-brick segmental and round-arched casement
windows with keystones, top floor with round arched sashes
with piers; stone sill bands to 2nd and 5th storeys; stone
cornices to ground and 3rd storeys. Decorative brick string
courses to parapet. Elevator shaft to Herbal Hill elevation.
Dramatic tapered brick chimney stack attached to rear,
otherwise rear elevations similiar but plainer than front.
Attached cast-iron railings with firm's initials on them.
History: Wood's closed in 1872 and the stock was bought by
Figgins; St. Bride Printing Library has some of the firm's
type specimens and an engraving of the foundry c.1900 which
proves that the building survives almost intact. The building
is an outstanding survival of the typefounding industry, and
extremely important for its early date, its size, and its
state of completeness. It is one of the earliest surviving
buildings in the Farringdon Road.
(Historians File, English Heritage, London Division: 1990-).


Listing NGR: TQ3134682139

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