58-60 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EZ
1989-90 built shop and office building, upper floors converted to residential 2006 | Part of 52 to 72 Middlesex Street
58 to 60 Middlesex Street
Contributed by Survey of London on June 5, 2019
Nos 58-60, on the site of two of James Hartnoll’s shop-houses, is a single building of 1989-90 built as a shop with offices and storage over. The frontage sports three strips of alternate glazing and panels of grey composite separated by vestigial stock- and red-brick pilasters with thin green-painted window frames, the top floor with with a meagre pediment over the middle bay. The upper floors of 58, 60 and 62 were converted in 2006 to five flats, with an entrance at No. 62, for Raynes Textiles of 1 Gravel Lane, opposite, to the designs of IBI Design Associates of Southgate.1
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Tower Hamlets planning applications online ↩
52 to 72 Middlesex Street
Contributed by Survey of London on June 5, 2019
Nos 52 to 54 and 62 to 72 Middlesex Street were built as four-storey shop- houses in 1885-6 by James Hartnoll, better known as a builder of artisans’ dwellings, including the vast Brunswick Buildings in Goulston Street.1 In 1886 Hartnoll advertised them for let as shops with basements and fitted as living rooms above, ‘but could be let for business purposes’, a draw for ‘chemist or medical man, oilman, greengrocer baker, confectioner, butcher, coffee house’, was the presence of ‘one thousand model dwellings within a stone’s throw’, and that approximated the mix of occupants, though in the 1960s and 1970s the rag trade predominated, many replaced by food outlets in recent years.2 In 2010 at the initiative of Jessica Tibbles of the Electric Blue Gallery, at No. 64 in 2009-2014, the shutters of all the shops on the east side of Middlesex Street (16 to 22, now demolished, 38 to 48, and 52 to 72), and four in Wentworth Street, were painted with all 26 letters of the alphabet by the street artist Ben Eine with large colourful graphic letters, a feature that can be seen on shutters all over East London.3
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London Metropolitan Archives, District Surveyor's Returns (DSR): Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 16 June 1886, p. 2 ↩
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Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 4 April 1886, p. 10: Post Office Directories (POD) ↩
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http://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/06/07/the-return-of-ben-eine-street- artist/: https://www.flickr.com/groups/letters_from_eine/pool/ ↩
58-60 Middlesex Street in 2015
Contributed by Aileen Reid
52 to 72 Middlesex Street
Contributed by Derek Kendall
Posner Confectionery, 58 Middlesex Street
Contributed by gary