337 and 338, High Holborn
337 AND 338, HIGH HOLBORN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1246102
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 337 and 338, High Holborn
- Statutory Address:
- 337 AND 338, HIGH HOLBORN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1246102
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 337 and 338, High Holborn
- Statutory Address 1:
- 337 AND 338, HIGH HOLBORN
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:
- 337 AND 338, 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 31141 81588
Details
TQ 3181 NW
627-0/1/10198
HIGH HOLBORN (South side)
Nos. 337 AND 338
(Formerly Listed as: CAMDEN STAPLE INN, High Holborn Nos. 337 and 338)
14/05/74
GV
II*
Two chambers and later shop. The rear of these buildings forms No.4 Staple Inn (qv). c1586 for Vincent Engham, Principal of the Inn. In 1886 Alfred Waterhouse removed post-medieval additions (plaster, brick facings and sash windows, inter alia), in a restoration funded by the Prudential Assurance Company. The structure was largely rebuilt in facsimile by Sir Edward Maufe in 1954-5.
Timber frame front elevation (close studded) with brick rear under a tiled, gabled, roof. C20 chimney stacks. four storeys and attic. To ground floor, early C19 shop fronts with entablatures, No. 338 projecting and flanked by brackets. Symmetrical front of two gabled bays, jettied at floors with projecting oriels of three lights at second floor level. Transom and mullion casement windows with square leaded panes. On the first, second and third floor projecting ranges of ten lights, flanked by two recessed lights and, on the first floor a projecting bay of three lights to the left and four recessed lights to the right, on the third floor projecting ranges of four lights. Bargeboards to gables.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
HISTORY: until 1886 the original casement windows survived on the first floor of No. 337. These provided the example from which the remainder of the windows were designed.
With Nos 1-4 Holborn Bars (qv), these buildings form a unique example in London of a C16 group of timber-framed houses.
Formerly Listed in the LB of Camden. Since 1 April 1994 Staple Inn has been part of the City of London.
Listing NGR: TQ 3115081586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454472
- 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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