26 AND 28, HIGH STREET
26 AND 28, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183524
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 28, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26 AND 28, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183524
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 28, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26 AND 28, HIGH 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:
- 26 AND 28, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Sutton (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 25996 63944
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 4430 (East Side) Nos 26 and 28 TQ 2563 31/85 TQ 2663 32/85 II 2. Building acquired by the London and County Bank in 1901. 4-storey corner building with 3 fronts including a splayed corner bay. No 26 stuccoed; No 28 red brick. Slate hipped roof. Cornice and parapet. Upper storeys have segmental headed windows except the 1st floor which has windows set in round- headed arches. Listed on account of ground floor only. Stone bank front and doorway on ground floor designed by [? Frederick] Wheeler; Art Nouveau decoration; segmental-headed windows with deep battered sills; doorway on corner with rounded edges and above it an oriel window with delicate carved leaf ornament to the corbelling. From the base of door and window architraves rise bulbous shapes [onions?] merging upwards into tapering shafts which rise as high as door and window heads and above them, traversing an undulating horizontal band until they find their conclusion in inverted onion forms at the base of the ground floor cornice. Carving of fine detail. Still in use as a bank front; now occupied by National Westminster Bank.
Listing NGR: TQ2599663944
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206734
- 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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