56, Chiswell Street
56, CHISWELL STREET, LONDON, EC1Y 4SA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252349
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 56, Chiswell Street
- Statutory Address:
- 56, CHISWELL STREET, LONDON, EC1Y 4SA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252349
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 56, Chiswell Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, CHISWELL STREET, LONDON, EC1Y 4SA
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:
- 56, CHISWELL STREET, LONDON, EC1Y 4SA
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:
- TQ3256081933
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/07/2017
TQ3281NE
635-1/79/238
CHISWELL STREET (South side)
No.56
(Formerly listed as St Paul's Tavern Public House)
17/03/75
GV
II
Former public house. Mid-to-late C18 with C19 stucco dressings and mid-to-late C19 public house frontage to ground floor. Brown brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof obscured by parapet.
Four storeys over basement, four-window ranges to Chiswell Street and Milton Street. Ground floor with base of black polished granite, pilasters forming five bays to Milton Street and four to Chiswell Street, those at either end of the frontages, flanking the corner entrance, and dividing the Milton Street frontage, having Corinthian capitals and carrying consoles and pedimented fascia stops; fascia and cornice; the third and fifth bays from the south in Milton Street and the second and fourth from the west in Chiswell Street have original mid-to-late C19 fenestration. Upper windows all flat-arched with moulded stucco architraves, the third and fourth from the south in Milton Street blank to all floors; first-floor windows have cornices on consoles and stucco panels above linking to sills of second-floor windows; third-floor windows have bracketed sills; bracketed eaves cornice and blocking course. Central raised panel to either front flanked by scrolled consoles.
No interior features of interest to ground floor.
Listing NGR: TQ3256081933
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435340
- 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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