Number 1 Prescot Street and Attached Wall and Railings
NO. 1 AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, NOS. 5-7, PRESCOT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065738
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 Prescot Street and Attached Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NO. 1 AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, NOS. 5-7, PRESCOT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065738
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 Prescot Street and Attached Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO. 1 AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, NOS. 5-7, PRESCOT STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NO. 1 AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, NOS. 5-7, PRESCOT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 34056 80967
Details
TQ 3480,
22/893
PRESCOT STREET,
No. 1 and attached wall and railings
GV
II
Office block. C1932 by L G Ekins for the Co-operative Wholesale
Society. Built by the CWS Building Dept. Steel frame clad with
dark brown brick, with horizontal joints raked out; semi-basement
and entrances, concrete textured with feldspar or granite,
channelled to appear as stone. Green pantiled mansard roof with
two rows of dormers. Rectangular block on corner site. Five storeys,
two attics and semi-basement. Main facade thirteen bays plus later
addition of seven slightly projecting bays to right. Segmental
arched arcading rises from ground floor through 4th floor with
splayed reveals of bricks set at angles to give dog tooth
pattern; arch heads also of this treatment. Bronzed and green
painted metal framed windows of three lights with green metal spandrel
panels of corrugated and bead design. Main entrance on centre of
thirteen bays; rectangular surround an extension of basement textured
cement. Recessed angular mouldings to opening with bronzed iron
geometric pattern screen; above, a bas relief rectangular plaque
depicting a nude male and female; cornice of corrugated design.
Entrance approached by steps flanked by cement balustrades with
bronzed iron railings of geometric pattern with bronzed octagonal
lanterns. Fifth floor in lighter coloured brick with blue band;
continuous 3-light square headed recessed windows with brick
mullions and separated by elongated enriched brick
ornamentations. Blue and red brick corrugated parapet. Pantiled
roof with antefixae. Continuous rows of cream painted 3-light
dormers with corrugated lintels and separating panels; alternate
panels with angular cream rainwater heads and green painted pipes
forming a feature of the decoration. Left-hand angle canted with
plainer entrance; brick work at angles forms open-work pattern;
angular 2-light oriel through three floors with green painted metal
zig-zag patterned spandrel panels. Returns similar to main
facade. Attached concrete wall with piers and bronzed iron
railings of geometric pattern.
An unusual example in Britain of the German Expressionist style.
Ekins worked all his life for the CWS, designing shops and warehouses all over Britain.
Listing NGR: TQ3405680967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206522
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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