1-6, LOMBARD STREET EC3

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286139
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:: 1-6, LOMBARD STREET EC3
Statutory Address:: 1-6, LOMBARD STREET EC3

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286139
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:: 1-6, LOMBARD STREET EC3
Statutory Address 1:: 1-6, LOMBARD STREET EC3

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:: 1-6, LOMBARD STREET EC3

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 32715 81066

Details

LOMBARD STREET EC3 1. 5002 (South Side) Nos 1 to 6 (consec) TQ 3281 SE 10/N/43

II GV

2. 1908 and 1915 by Dunn and Watson with W Curtis Green. Symmetrical stone facade convex curved to follow line of street; 5 main storeys and 2 dormered roof storeys; 17 bays (3+11+3) with end pavilions of slight projection; tall channelled arcuated base embracing lower 2 storeys, each arch containing iron railings to basement windows and stone balustrades to mezzanine (lst) floor windows; giant Corinthian order uniting 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors with attached unfluted columns and richly carved entablature with dentilled and modillioned cornice and lion masks in the cyma; crowning balustrade with plain dies, turned balusters and moulded capping. The end pavilions emphasized by tripartite treatment with central ground floor opening flanked by Byzantine columns carrying an enriched lintol and cornice; channelled quoin piers to upper storeys. Central tripartite feature to main facade with tall arched opening leading to coffered turret vaulted entrance flanked by 2 storey narrower openings matching those to end pavilions. Balconies with iron balustrades to all 3rd floor windows; the slated roof not prominent behind crowning balustrade. To the left of the symmetrical 17 bay facade a lower 4 storeyed corner block, circular on plan and containing another entrance. Facade returns to St Swithin's Lane.

Listing NGR: TQ3270481062

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Legacy System number:: 199585
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.