Building at the junction of Gray's Inn Road and Pentonville Road
Building at the junction of Gray's Inn Road and Pentonville Road
Record No
108303
Title
Building at the junction of Gray's Inn Road and Pentonville Road
Description
376-380 Gray's Inn Road, King's Cross, known colloquially as the Lighthouse Building. It stands on a narrow triangular site at the junction of Gray's Inn Road and Pentonville Road and is a Flatiron-style block of shops and offices built c1875. It replaced buildings destroyed in the construction of the Metropolitan Railway, and includes 295-297 Pentonville Road. The four-storey building is surmounted with a lead-covered tower with a cast-iron balcony and topped with a weather vane. The original purpose of the lighthouse is unclear, though it has been suggested it was to promote Netten's Oyster Bar sited on the ground floor below. Here a number of shops are visible, including a Bureau de Change, BSM (British School of Motoring), the Associazione Turistica Lavoratori Italiani and Mole Jazz, a well-known specialist record shop at 374 Gray's Inn Road. The roads are busy with traffic, King's Cross being an important confluence of routes and having two major railway stations. However the area became increasingly run down and by the late-twentieth century the Lighthouse Building had been standing empty for many years and was placed on Historic England's Buildings at Risk register as it was falling into dereliction. As part of the wider regeneration of the King's Cross area it was restored in 2016. The building is Grade II Listed, listing number 1113191, and retains its commercial and retail use and remains an important King's Cross landmark.
Date of execution
1978
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_343_78_3775
London picture map location
Exact
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