MIDLAND BANK

27-35, POULTRY EC2

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1064598
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: MIDLAND BANK
Statutory Address:: 27-35, POULTRY EC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1064598
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: MIDLAND BANK
Statutory Address 1:: 27-35, POULTRY EC2
Statutory Address 2:: MIDLAND BANK, 5, PRINCE'S STREET EC2

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 27-35, POULTRY EC2
Statutory Address:: MIDLAND BANK, 5, PRINCE'S STREET EC2

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32622 81144

Details

POULTRY EC2 1. 5002 (North Side) Nos 27 to 35 (consec) TQ 3281 SE 10/257 5.6.72.

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2. Includes No 5 (Midland Bank) Prince's Street. 1924, by Sir Edwin Lutyens. One of his finest urban buildings. Simplified classical style - faced with Portland stone. 5 storeys plus variously recessed single and double attics. Rusticated and arcaded ground storey with order of vanishing pilasters and pair of Doric columns in antis to recessed entrance. Mezzanine treated as pedestal to upper part with carved figures of boys at either end by Sir W Reid Dick. Partly channelled stonework to 3 storeys above with very simple, tall arcade. Modelled central projection to attic with large, arched opening, Corinthian pilasters pediment and urns. Low, central dome and obelisks at either end. Short return to Grocers' Hall Court with later bridge. Beyond, plain elevation of white, glazed brick with stone to ground storey. Short elevation to Princes' Street similar to front with 3 simple entrances.

Listing NGR: TQ3262281144

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Legacy System number:: 199690
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.