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Cornwell House

A Grade II Listed Building in Clerkenwell, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5225 / 51°31'21"N

Longitude: -0.1054 / 0°6'19"W

OS Eastings: 531540

OS Northings: 182100

OS Grid: TQ315821

Mapcode National: GBR N8.HD

Mapcode Global: VHGQT.4Z4Q

Plus Code: 9C3XGVFV+2R

Entry Name: Cornwell House

Listing Date: 30 September 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1195545

English Heritage Legacy ID: 368770

ID on this website: 101195545

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

TQ3182SE CLERKENWELL GREEN 635-1/74/279 (South West side) Nos.20-21 Cornwell House

GV II

Includes: No.120 CLERKENWELL ROAD. Built as the Sessions House Hotel, now showrooms and offices. 1879, converted to showrooms and offices c.1925. White brick laid in Flemish bond with dressings of red brick and stucco, polished granite to ground floor, roofs obscured by parapet. Four storeys, twelve-window range, the building curved in plan to the street and breaking back and forth irregularly. Ground floor of no 20 is a three-bay shop front with segmental-arched entrance and two flat-arched windows; the rest of the building (nos 21 Clerkenwell Green and 120 Clerkenwell Road) has shop fronts divided by paired Ionic pilasters on polished granite bases and carrying consoles which rise through the fascia to the cornice which breaks forwards over them. The shop fronts have, apart from the left-hand bay of no 2l, wooden architraves which may be original. First-floor windows segmental-arched with segmental dripmoulds and keystones over some and cornice on consoles over others; second-floor windows round-arched with keystones, and balcony to eighth from left; third-floor windows segmental-arched with heads of gauged red brick and keystones; red brick dressings to quasi-springing bands on first and second floor and brick banding to third floor; bracketed cornice; parapet with openwork balustrade and pediment over eighth bay from left. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3154582095

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