25 AND 27, FARRINGDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078338
Date first listed:: 16-May-1978
List Entry Name:: 25 AND 27, FARRINGDON ROAD
Statutory Address:: 25 AND 27, FARRINGDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078338
Date first listed:: 16-May-1978
List Entry Name:: 25 AND 27, FARRINGDON ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: 25 AND 27, FARRINGDON ROAD

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

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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:: 25 AND 27, FARRINGDON ROAD

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:: TQ 31510 81768

Details

CAMDEN

TQ3181NE FARRINGDON ROAD 798-1/103/429 (East side) 16/05/78 Nos.25 AND 27

II

Workshops. 1873-4. By Harding and Bond for Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., engravers, for printing banknotes. Polychromatic brick in yellow, red and black with stone facing to ground floor. Stone dressings. EXTERIOR: 6 storeys in Venetian Gothic style. 8 bays to Farringdon Road; rounded, slightly recessed corner bay, then 7 bays to Greville Street, with the centre bay slightly advanced. Ground floor takes the form of a stone faced base with (renewed) windows set between piers from which a tall brick gothic arcade rises to embrace the next three floors, whose windows are slightly recessed. Entrance with stone surround rises through 1st floor with arched 3-light window. 4-pane sash windows separated vertically by brick and terracotta aprons having central slender iron column mullions, those to the second floor rising through the aprons to the small round-headed windows above, to support stone tracery filling the arcade arch which springs from stone imposts. Corbelled cornice at 3rd floor level above which 2 attic storeys of sash windows (separated by a brick cornice) in pairs and triplets with decorative stone heads and divided by iron column mullions. Brick and stone cornice. Grenville Street elevation similar with Gothic gable over 2nd bay to left and Gothic doorway in centre bay. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3151081768

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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.