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Latitude: 51.5364 / 51°32'10"N
Longitude: -0.1038 / 0°6'13"W
OS Eastings: 531612
OS Northings: 183646
OS Grid: TQ316836
Mapcode National: GBR N3.VF
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.5N02
Plus Code: 9C3XGVPW+HF
Entry Name: 75 and 75A, Upper Street
Listing Date: 29 September 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1209656
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369398
ID on this website: 101209656
Location: Islington, London, N1
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: St Mary's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Mary Islington
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: House
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
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