9, CARMELITE STREET EC4
9, CARMELITE STREET EC4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252144
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 9, CARMELITE STREET EC4
- Statutory Address:
- 9, CARMELITE STREET EC4
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252144
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 9, CARMELITE STREET EC4
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9, CARMELITE STREET EC4
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:
- 9, CARMELITE STREET EC4
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 31477 80862
Details
Carmelite Street, EC4 TQ 3180 NW 13/168 No 9 (previously listed under 5.6.72 Sion College)
II GV
Office block. 1893-4 by H A Hunt and H T Steward (architects & surveyors) for the Board of Conservators of the River Thames. Built by George Trollope & Sons. Red brick with stone dressings in Tudor Gothic style. Slate roof with tall chimney stacks. 5 storeys and basement. 7 windows and 1 window return to Victoria Embankment where the ground floor is obscured by a late C20 extension to Sion College (qv). Central Gothic entrance of moulded ogee arch having fine carved stone insets including grotesque masks and armorial devices; double panelled doors, half glazed with tracery and traceried fanlight. To left, a wide elliptical arch above basement entrance with fine wrought iron screen and gate of quatrefoil design. Mostly square-headed transom and mullion windows with hoodmoulds; 3:3:2:3:2:3:3 lights, some pointed and some pointed and cusped heads. End bays slightly projecting; right hand with 2 double height 3-light traceried windows with enriched lintels through lst and 2nd floors and cartouch dated 1893 between 4th floor segmental arched windows. Brick parapet; end bays having small pediments, central bay larger parapet and finial. Return to Embankment with double height 5-light traceried oriel window having enriched lintel. Gable with small window and figurative finial. The similarity of this building and Sion College was at the insistence of the City Lands Committee which controlled development on behalf of the City Corporation. No 9 Carmelite Street forms a group with Sion College, Victoria Embankment.
Listing NGR: TQ3147780862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435084
- 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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