2-7, SALISBURY COURT EC4
2-7, SALISBURY COURT EC4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375284
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 2-7, SALISBURY COURT EC4
- Statutory Address:
- 2-7, SALISBURY COURT EC4
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375284
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 2-7, SALISBURY COURT EC4
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-7, SALISBURY COURT EC4
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:
- 2-7, SALISBURY COURT EC4
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 31497 81137
Details
TQ 3181 SE SALISBURY COURT, EC4
621-0/8/10081 Nos.2-7
II
Commercial chambers. 1878. Alexander Peebles architect, carving by Smith and Finlay. Brick in English bond with rubbed brick and terracotta dressings; wood bays with pargetting to bases. Hipped roof of slate. Three storeys over basement and five-window range, articulated into three major and two minor bays by giant brick piers. Queen Anne Revival style recalling Shawls New Zealand Chambers, Leadenhall Street of 1873 (demolished). Pair of round-arched entrances in minor, that is second- and fifth-window ranges. Wood insets to ground floor renewed but to an original design. Terracotta plaques at sills of first-floor windows, sunflowers, scrolls and a bust in three-quarter relief. Brick piers become fluted pilasaters at second floor. Pier between third- and fourth-window ranges has shield with three tuns; Tuscan pilasters above are doubled. Projecting cornice to second floor, becoming full entablature over entrance ranges. First-, third- and fourth-window ranges filled with two-storey bays to upper floors, rectangular in two stages to the former an shallow canted to the second two; most of original glazing intact. Flat-arched windows to inset entrance ranges; second-floor window, first-window range is elliptical arched. Each bay range terminates in a Dutch gable dormer; that to fourth-window range has lost top of gable. Originally each dormer with volute brackets to crescent moon parapet; obliterated in filling in and heightening of top storey. All dormer windows segmental arched except for fourth-window range which contains a pair of flat-arched windows. Roof with second tier of dormers rebuilt. Stacks to interior fire walls and party walls. Blue plaque attached notes that the first edition of the "Sunday Times" was edited at no.4 Salisbury Court by Henry White, October 20, 1822. Similar ranges which were designed by Peebles and ran to corner, then along Fleet Street, have been demolished.
Listing NGR: TQ3149481136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466169
- 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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