FORMER GRANT'S DEPARTMENT STORE

FORMER GRANT'S DEPARTMENT STORE, 14, 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252987
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER GRANT'S DEPARTMENT STORE
Statutory Address:: FORMER GRANT'S DEPARTMENT STORE, 14, 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252987
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER GRANT'S DEPARTMENT STORE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER GRANT'S DEPARTMENT STORE, 14, 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: FORMER GRANT'S DEPARTMENT STORE, 14, 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Croydon (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32311 65499

Details

The following building shall be added:

TQ 3265 CROYDON HIGH STREET (west side) 1005-/9/10015 nos. 14, 16 and 18 (former Grant's Department Store)

GV II

Former department store. 1894 by Metcalfe and Jones for Grant Brothers. Four main storeys with attics above. Red brick with grey brick diapering and extensive stone dressings. Symmetrical seven-bay facade. Ground floor with modern shop front, fascia obscured. From it ascend semi-octagonal attached columns at ends and either side of central bay; similar columns define other bays but project from corbels. First floor has three pairs of windows with four-centred arches under flat stone entablatures which flank two narrow central windows with a decorative panel forming the initials 'GB'. In the band above, decorative lettering reads: 'MILLINERY/RIBBONS - LONDON HOUSE - LACE/GLOVES - SILKS/DRESSES - LONDON HOUSE - MANTLES/LINENS'. The bays above these windows are arranged 1-2-1 either side of projecting canted oriel, all with stone dressings. Cornice above third floor decorated with leaves and panels. The central oriel has a turret with ogee cap and octagonal pillars projecting above the parapet and supporting heraldic beasts. A further tower rises one storey higher behind, with an open decorated parapet.

Listing NGR: TQ3230865506

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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.