2, ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS EC3
2, ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS EC3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375282
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS EC3
- Statutory Address:
- 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS EC3
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375282
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS EC3
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS EC3
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:
- 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS 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 32888 81145
Details
TQ 3281 SE ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, EC3
627-0/10/10080 No.2
GV II
Office Block. 1907-1910 to designs by Sir Ernest George and Yates, carving by Albert Hodge. Stone. Mansard roof of metal with dormers. Four storeys and attic over basement. Twelve-window range with a left return of three-window range; to right a curved corner and then four-window range to Cornhill. Left corner returns at an acute angle and right at an oblique. All ground-floor windows are round arched; other openings flat arched unless stated otherwise. Entrances in fourth- and tenth-window ranges with architraves cut as guilloche bands and overlights with decorative grilles. Alternately rusticated blocks to ground floor and first floor, which is suppressed as a kind of mezzanine, the two forming a monumental base for the upper floors. Round-arched recess to second and third floors in entrance ranges flanked by attached Tuscan columns supporting a raking cornice pediment, the tympanum of which with garlands and cartouche in very high relief; second-floor balcony in this recess supported by broad acanthus brackets. All other window ranges to upper floors gathered together in two-storey architrave ornamented with panels and scrolls and armorial shields bearing anchors, shields and portcullises. Rusticated blocks and shield to curved corner range with Cornhill, where the bay system described above is repeated and there is one entrance. Elevation to Royal Exchange Avenue identical except for centre range of second and third floors where a two-storey aedicule of superposed Tuscan and Composite attached columns. Roof with tripartite dormers to south half; grilles to basement windows, the centre formed by four hands clasped. The elevations have a strong sculptural presence which asserts itself easily against the bold, overscaled motifs of the Royal Exchange.
Listing NGR: TQ3280281139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466167
- 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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