St Bartholomew House
ST BARTHOLOMEW HOUSE, 58-59, WEST SMITHFIELD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262479
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1990
- List Entry Name:
- St Bartholomew House
- Statutory Address:
- ST BARTHOLOMEW HOUSE, 58-59, WEST SMITHFIELD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262479
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1990
- List Entry Name:
- St Bartholomew House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST BARTHOLOMEW HOUSE, 58-59, WEST SMITHFIELD
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:
- ST BARTHOLOMEW HOUSE, 58-59, WEST SMITHFIELD
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 31910 81676
Details
WEST SMITHFIELD TQ 3181 2/37 Nos 58-59 (St Bartholomew House) II GV
Bank office building and Lyons tea-room, now restaurant. 1906 by George Vickery for Biggarstaff, bankers; built in 3 phases; rear left block rebuilt 1925; late C20 alterations. Cream brick, the main façade clad in Portland stone with granite lower course, returns having cream tiles to ground floor. Slate mansard roof. 5 storeys and attic; 5-window range with canted bay to left. Central entry has finely-carved Art Nouveau trees with stylised gnarled roots flanking cavetto-moulded semi-circular arched fanlight with lion¿s mask keystone above square-headed doorway. Egg and dart cornice above large glazing-bar window and doorway to tight and large Ipswich window and entrance with engaged rusticated columns to left. Upper floors, which have square-headed casement windows, are articulated by full-height polygonal pilaster strips: those flanking central bay have similar Art Nouveau carvings where they meet cornice at fourth-floor level, beneath 3-bay open segmental pediment with segmental-arched windows and richly-carved swags and armorial cartouche to tympanum; domed roof over stone dormer surmounting carved bay to left. Similar single bay to left side return has similar Art Nouveau carvings; rest of 5-bay return is very plain with square-headed windows, and segmental-arched windows to ground floor. Right return of 3 bays, the front 2 retaining original tea-room windows and having attached columns, cornices and decorative spandrels and metal grille over; console-bracketed fascia. Interior: banking office retains few original features apart from painted-over Art Nouveau tiles to stair lobby (on each floor), 2 small sections of original iron stair balustrade, and on 1st floor some doorways with leaded overlights, tiling and cornices. Former tea-rooms retain original wall marbling and mirrors to basement and ground floors, stair (altered), and, in basement, metal eaves grilles and panelled ceiling. The building has very strong group value and is notable for its Art Nouveau carvings and the surviving Lyons tea-room features.
Listing NGR: TQ3190981686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434958
- 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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