18 and a Half, Sekforde Street

18 AND A HALF, SEKFORDE STREET, EC1R 0HL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209479
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:
18 and a Half, Sekforde Street
Statutory Address:
18 AND A HALF, SEKFORDE STREET, EC1R 0HL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209479
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
18 and a Half, Sekforde Street
Statutory Address 1:
18 AND A HALF, SEKFORDE STREET, EC1R 0HL

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
18 AND A HALF, SEKFORDE STREET, EC1R 0HL

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Islington (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 31581 82397

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/01/2017

TQ3281SE
635-1/74/760

ISLINGTON
SEKFORDE STREET (West side)
No.18 and A Half

(Formerly Listed as: Nos 18 1/2 SEKFORDE STREET, previously listed as SEKFORD STREET, Nos.18 1/2, Finsbury and City of London Savings Bank)

29/12/50

GV
II
Former Bank. Dated 1840 in ground floor fascia: 'INSTITUTED A.D.1816. ERECTED A.D.1840'. Probably stone, but perhaps stucco, now painted, roof of Welsh slate. Two storeys over basement, five-window range. Designed in the manner of a Renaissance palazzo. Outer bays set back at either end. Ground floor has banded and chamfered rustication; outer bays have round-arched openings, that to left now an entrance; between these seven flat-arched openings, now windows, between antae, the glazing of entrance and windows of metal and apparently early C20 in date. Fascia and moulded cornice. All first-floor windows round-arched, those to outer bays flanked by engaged columns with palm-leaf capitals and archivolt, and balustrade to sill; inner bays have three Venetian windows with Corinthian columns set back under a round arch, only the middle window having the outer arch glazed; quoins to projecting central bays and fascia inscribed 'FINSBURY BANK FOR SAVINGS'; dentil and modillion cornice; stacks between outer and inner bays.

Listing NGR: TQ3158082397

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
369344
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.

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