48, BISHOPSGATE EC2
48, BISHOPSGATE EC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359148
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 48, BISHOPSGATE EC2
- Statutory Address:
- 48, BISHOPSGATE EC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359148
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 48, BISHOPSGATE EC2
- Statutory Address 1:
- 48, BISHOPSGATE EC2
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:
- 48, 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 33142 81308
Details
BISHOPSGATE EC2 1. 5002 (East Side) No 48 TQ 3381 SW 11/N/6 1.8.75.
II
2. Late C19. Elaborate stone building in flamboyant Second Empire style. 4 storeys and roof-storey; 3 bays wide. Ground floor with original large square headed opening with plate glass window and round arched entrance with enriched architrave and mask key crowned by console bracketed entablature with triglyph frieze and dentilled cornice. Architraved and pedimented windows above, right hand window slightly set forward with flanking pilasters supporting balustrade. Sill-guards to windows in wrought iron. Console bracketed pediments at 2nd floor level. Round headed windows set between pilasters and with projecting segmental sills and iron guards at 3rd floor level. Bracketed cornice. Large pedimented central dormer flanked by 2 smaller round-headed dormers in high pavilion roof of copper and slate. Wrought iron guard rails to parapet and ridge of roof. Wrought iron entrance gates and footscrapers.
Listing NGR: TQ3313981310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 199315
- 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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