25 AND 27, FARRINGDON ROAD
25 AND 27, FARRINGDON ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477271
- 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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