12, FLORAL STREET WC2
12, FLORAL STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066797
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 12, FLORAL STREET WC2
- Statutory Address:
- 12, FLORAL STREET WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066797
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 12, FLORAL STREET WC2
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, FLORAL STREET WC2
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:
- 12, FLORAL STREET WC2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30253 80938
Details
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER FLORAL STREET, WC2. 72/9 15.1.73 No. 12 II Former parish schools. First built 1838 by E.H. Browne, altered and largely refronted by C.G. Searle in 1860. Stucco, slate roof. Italianate style probably recommended by Charles Parker the Bedford Estate Surveyor. Lofty 3 storey front set back with to right a 4 storey entrance/staircase tower projecting to building line. 4 windows wide. Entrance at foot of tower with archivolt keyed arch, panelled door and blind lunette with 1860 date tablet. Recessed front has tall closely set architraved and archivolt arched and keyed windows to each floor with radial glazing to heads; ground floor window partly altered to door. Panelled applied pedestal to 1st floor windows, bracketed sill course to 2nd floor, crowning cornice returned over tower. The latter is treated as a belvedere-campanile with rusticated quoins with bracketed eaves cornice to pyramidal lead covered roof. Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.
Listing NGR: TQ3026580921
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209732
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, Vol. 36, (1970)
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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