Lincoln Chambers

11, SHEFFIELD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1227132
Date first listed:
01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Lincoln Chambers
Statutory Address:
11, SHEFFIELD STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1227132
Date first listed:
01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Lincoln Chambers
Statutory Address 1:
11, SHEFFIELD STREET
Statutory Address 2:
LINCOLN CHAMBERS, 2-4, PORTSMOUTH STREET WC2

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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:
11, SHEFFIELD STREET
Statutory Address:
LINCOLN CHAMBERS, 2-4, PORTSMOUTH 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 30752 81219

Details

TQ 3081 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTSMOUTH STREET WC2 60/3 Nos 2 to 4 consec (Lincoln Chambers) including No 11 Sheffield Street GV II Chambers. C.1905 and stylistically close to H Fuller Clark. Ceramic brick and Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Original Edwardian Free Style design for offices. 3 storeys and attic. 7 windows wide. Stone faced ground floor has central, wide, recessed porch under lintel, the sides splayed-in with semicircular fanlight over central panelled and glazed door and flanked by side door and window with arched heads; good Arts and Crafts lettering in gold mosaic to name panel over lintel. Flanking the recessed porch are 2 large office windows of 3 ashlar flat-mullioned lights above small-paned glazed and tall risers to basement. Upper floors have box framed sashes with feature of central Diocletian windows to 1st floor and tripartite squat-columned windows to 2nd floor, the outermost windows treated as 2 storey, canted, flat stone mullioned bays, beneath gables. Deep stone eaves cornices running between coped gables. Coursed dormers in steep roof. Interesting island block development of chambers with No 3 St Clement's Lane qv.

Listing NGR: TQ3074981218

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Legacy System number:
424761
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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