ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 3 AND 5, BISHOPSGATE EC2

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1287008
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
Statutory Address:: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 3 AND 5, BISHOPSGATE EC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1287008
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 3 AND 5, BISHOPSGATE EC2

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:: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 3 AND 5, BISHOPSGATE EC2

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 33029 81168

Details

BISHOPSGATE EC2 1. 5002 (West Side) Nos 3 and 5 (Royal Bank of Scotland) TQ 3381 SW 11/336

II GV

2. 1877 by T Chatfield Clarke. Stone faced. 4 storeys plus basement and garret. Ground and 1st floors contained within 7 bay arcade of attached Ionic columns on rusticated bases, ground and 1st floor windows separated by decorated friezes with relief heads in roundels. Bas relief figure sculpture in spandrels of arcade which is further enriched with mask keystones. Scalloped frieze with balustrade over between the bases of panelled Corinthian pilasters which unite the rusticated 2nd and 3rd floors and support an entablature decorated with masks and swags, the cornice with lion masks. 2nd and 3rd floor windows recessed in architraved bays and separated As between ground and 1st floors. Segmental pedimented dormers with ball finials. Slated roof.

Listing NGR: TQ3302981168

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Legacy System number:: 199306
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.