Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE UPPER STREET
635-1/59/869 (West side)
29/09/72 Nos.75 AND 75A

II

Terraced house and entrance wing to former cinema, the
Electric Theatre. The original house mid-C18, the cinema
1908-9. Brick, and presumably stone rendered with stucco or
painted, roof of clay tiles. Three storeys with dormer,
four-window range. The front wing consists of squat columns
supporting a massive elliptical arch to Upper Street and a
pair of round arches with keystones to St Alban's Place;
parapet with balustrade and hemispherical dome surmounted by a
female figure, on her head the massive socket to a globe of
electric light, now lost. The original house is set back, with
a flat-arched passage to St Alban's Place to the south. The
first and second floors have flat-arched windows with moulded
stucco architraves and storey bands between floors; parapet.
Hipped roof with one dormer.
The cinema was opened by Electric Theatres (1908) Ltd, the
first company to establish a chain of cinemas in London; the
entrance wing is the earliest surviving portion of a cinema in
London.
(Chris Draper: Islington's cinemas and film studios).

Listing NGR: TQ3161283646

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504713

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