Latitude: 51.5285 / 51°31'42"N
Longitude: -0.1154 / 0°6'55"W
OS Eastings: 530831
OS Northings: 182745
OS Grid: TQ308827
Mapcode National: GBR L6.88
Mapcode Global: VHGQS.YVC4
Plus Code: 9C3XGVHM+9V
Entry Name: Police Station
Listing Date: 30 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1207691
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369058
ID on this website: 101207691
Location: Finsbury, Islington, London, WC1X
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: Clerkenwell Holy Redeemer
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Police station
ISLINGTON
TQ3082NE KING'S CROSS ROAD 635-1/67/543 (East side) No.76 Police Station
GV II
Police Station. 1869-1870 by Thomas Charles Sorby, Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police. Stock bricks with Portland and Tilbury stone dressings to front elevation; projecting eaves to roof, material obscured; prominent brick stacks to bearing walls. Italianate style. Four storeys with basement and one-storey Welsh-slate hipped roof block breaking forward along the front right facade; 6-window range. Assymetrical double-fronted with irregular end bays breaking forward and 4-window range centrepiece in recess. Steps rise to slightly off-centre single-bay porch entrance with stone dressings, and bracketed cornice surmounted by elaborate stone sculpture with heraldic supporters, possibly of a later date. 6/6 sashes with brick and stone surrounds throughout, windows becoming shorter as they rise. Ornament in loose, almost brutal manner; stone and brick sill bands to upper floors. Lavish brick cornice beneath eaves. Built as Clerkenwell Police Station to replace an earlier station of 1842 part of which appears to remain attached to the Magistrates Court (q. v.). (Historians File, English Heritage, London Division: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3083182745
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