Staple Inn Buildings North and South and Attached Railings
STAPLE INN BUILDINGS NORTH AND SOUTH AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 335 AND 336, HIGH HOLBORN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245623
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Staple Inn Buildings North and South and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- STAPLE INN BUILDINGS NORTH AND SOUTH AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 335 AND 336, HIGH HOLBORN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245623
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Staple Inn Buildings North and South and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAPLE INN BUILDINGS NORTH AND SOUTH AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 335 AND 336, HIGH HOLBORN
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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.
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:
- STAPLE INN BUILDINGS NORTH AND SOUTH AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 335 AND 336, HIGH HOLBORN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31129 81587
Details
TQ3113NW
627-0/1/10197
HIGH HOLBORN (South side)
Nos. 335 AND 336 Staple Inn Buildings North and South and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as: CAMDEN HIGH HOLBORN (South side) Nos. 335 AND 336 Staple Inn Buildings North and South)
14/05/74
GV
II
Offices. c1903 with later shop, by Alfred Waterhouse. Red brick with terracotta dressings and granite faced ground floor. Slate roof Jacobean style.
High Holborn frontage (No. 335) five storeys and attic. Three window bays with two lights each under a gable with dormer and scrolled pediment. Irregular 12 bay return. Polygonal corner turret with pedimented loops, arched openings at fourth floor level and slated and lead pinnacle with gabled windows. C20 ground floor shop front. Transom and mullion windows; the second, third, and 4th storeys with pilaster and cornice treatment with enriched aprons below attic and third and fourth storeys.
No. 336 similar to No.335 with two storeys, four bay extension at north end with hall at first floor level with pedimented windows and bracketed parapet above, and added ground floor windows below. Segmental bowed entrances with Doric columns in antis. South elevation to Staple Inn with terracotta plaque dated 1901 between two windows at ground floor level, a four-light oriel over, the top storey having three square-headed lights in arched openings under a gable with slit light.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought iron railings to areas.
Formerly listed in the LB of Camden. Since 1 April 1994 Staple Inn has been part of the City of London.
Listing NGR: TQ3113281585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 453240
- 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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