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“Exposed brickwork, raw concrete mouldings and expansive open-plan arrangements come together in this former church organ factory”
Occupying the entire first floor of Colina House, a former church organ factory, is this wonderful three-bedroom loft apartment. Measuring approximately 1,691 sq ft internally, the apartment bears many of the aesthetic hallmarks of warehouse living: oak floorboards, exposed brick, cast-iron pillars, raw concrete mouldings, and an original full-height hoist door opening out over the quiet street below. Positioned on Colina Mews, a short walk from Harringay Green Lanes, the apartment is a rare entity in a neighbourhood dominated by Edwardian and late-Victorian architecture. For more information, please see the History section below.
Colina House
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History
Colina House was originally built in 1897 as the home of renowned church organ manufacturers Rest Cartwright & Son. The firm's motto proudly pronounced their status "Described as Artists in Organs" and the business remained based in the factory until the 1960s.
Mr Rest Cartwright was a Harringay local and in bombastic Victorian fashion was christened 'Rest-in-the-Lord', but shortened the name to 'Rest' for business purposes. He built up his business over many years, supplying organ ranks to parish churches and cinemas around the UK, eventually winning a number of prizes at the Japan-British International Exposition in 1910 and The Queen's Coronation Exhibition in 1911.
After Cartwright's business ceased to trade in 1965, Colina House was used variously as artists' studios in the mid-1980s, until it was formally occupied as a number of photographers' studios and eventually sensitively converted into three residential homes.
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