95, CHANCERY LANE WC2, 61, CAREY STREET WC2

61, CAREY STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066310
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: 95, CHANCERY LANE WC2, 61, CAREY STREET WC2
Statutory Address:: 61, CAREY STREET WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066310
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: 95, CHANCERY LANE WC2, 61, CAREY STREET WC2
Statutory Address 1:: 61, CAREY STREET WC2
Statutory Address 2:: 95, CHANCERY LANE WC2

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:: 61, CAREY STREET WC2
Statutory Address:: 95, CHANCERY LANE WC2

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ3110481283

Details

TQ 3181 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHANCERY LANE, WC2 61/3 31.10.74 No. 95 (Including No. 61 Carey Street)

G.V. II

Bank. 1865 by F.W. Porter, built as the Union Bank of London. Portland stone, slate roof. Stately, richly detailed High Renaissance design. 3 storeys, basement and dormered attic. 4 window wide frontage to Chancery Lane, splayed corner entrance bay and 12-window wide front to Carey Street with central and terminal advanced pavilions. Aediculed corner entrance. 3 storey loggia treatment to Chancery Lane with semicircular arched windows contained within successive Tuscan, Ionic and Corinthian orders in coupled columns. The Carey Street front has the same theme but with coupled pilasters. Arcaded 1st floor windows. Terminal pavilions as loggias. The central pavilion 2 storeyed with stone ball finials to cornice blocking course. Heavy main cornice and entablature with semicircular, pedimented dormers above. Fine heavy cast iron area railings. Original banking hall with rich Renaissance detailing, largely intact.

Listing NGR: TTQ3110481283

The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1242925.This entry was removed from the List on 26 May 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 209061
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.