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Cleeve House

A Grade II Listed Building in Hackney, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5262 / 51°31'34"N

Longitude: -0.077 / 0°4'37"W

OS Eastings: 533495

OS Northings: 182565

OS Grid: TQ334825

Mapcode National: GBR V7.V2

Mapcode Global: VHGQT.MW4W

Plus Code: 9C3XGWGF+F5

Entry Name: Cleeve House

Listing Date: 22 March 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1235776

English Heritage Legacy ID: 426610

ID on this website: 101235776

Location: Shoreditch, Hackney, London, E2

County: London

District: Hackney

Electoral Ward/Division: Hoxton East & Shoreditch

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Hackney

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Leonard with S Michael, Shoreditch

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


CALVERT AVENUE 1. 5013 TQ 3382 32/30 Nos 6-20 (even) Calvert Avenue and Nos 1-28 (consec) Cleeve House, Boundary Street Estate II GV

2. Tenement block. 1895-9. Architect Reginald Minton Taylor of London County Council. Red brick with some grey brick banding. Slated mansard to eaves. 4 storeys plus roof storey with additional storey set in gable; brown glazed bricks to ground floor. Slightly projecting centre and ends, the centre of 4 bays, with tall decorative gable. Original shop fronts to ground floor with segmental headed entrances and segmental headed plate glass windows in timber frames with smaller decorative lights above; small panes to semi-glazed doors. Main entrance to block square headed with small panes and glazing bars to fanlight and triangular pediment over. Projecting pilaster strips at intervals rising through first, second and third floors, and paired to projecting centre of block. Brick cornice above third floor; further brick pilasters to central gable. Segmental headed windows to first and second floors; square headed windows to third floor and to gable windows (the outer ones with arched reveals having decorative stone voussoirs and stuccoed tympana). Dormers square headed, alternately with pediments to right side. Sashes, some glazing bars. An integral part of the Boundary St Estate. An important early LCC estate (qv Tower Hamlets).

Listing NGR: TQ3348682567

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