50, Cornhill and Attached Grilles
50, CORNHILL, LONDON, EC3V 3PD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375557
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 50, Cornhill and Attached Grilles
- Statutory Address:
- 50, CORNHILL, LONDON, EC3V 3PD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375557
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 50, Cornhill and Attached Grilles
- Statutory Address 1:
- 50, CORNHILL, LONDON, EC3V 3PD
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:
- 50, CORNHILL, LONDON, EC3V 3PD
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 32971 81111
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/07/2017
TQ 3281 SE
627-0/10/10056
CITY OF LONDON, LB
CORNHILL
No.50 and attached grilles
GV
II
Former offices and banking hall. 1891-92 by Henry Cowell Boyes, FRIBA; William Cubitt, builder, for Prescott, Dimsdale, Cave, Tugwell and Co., bankers. Polished Aberdeen granite and stone, Portland stone, and brick in English bond. Roof not visible.
Four storeys and attic over basement. Top storey recessed behind a balustrade, again not visible. Flat-arched entrances in outer ranges, that to left set in tall ground-floor arcade of three bays, the arches carried on attached to Tuscan columns on high socles and responds. Entrance to right with round window overlight which is partly obscured by pediment and spandrels of the arcade; this entrance set in short wall treated as banded rustication. Entablature to ground floor with high broad frieze-sign fascia. Storey band between first and second floor. Sill band to attic. First-floor and attic windows with eared architraves; lower spandrels to the former with guilloche bands; second-floor windows have architraves and entablatures. Heavy balconies to second-floor windows. Heavy dentil and modillioned cornice to attic; urn to right party wall and stack behind. Decorative security grilles to basement windows.
INTERIOR: Banking hall reaches to rear of site and is as broad as the building. Illuminated by glass dome on pilastered low drum. Walls with pilasters and panels of Derbyshire alabaster, and Spanish mahogany dado and cornice, with counters of the same hardwood; all features of original design. To east wall a panelled gallery. Entrance vestibule with pilasters and alabaster facing.Let into the white marble mosaic floor at time of completion were 'signs' of the four different banks united to form the new company 'Cornhill, 1762'; 'Threadneedle Street, 1766'; 'High Street, Bath, 1770'; and 'Corn Street, Bristol, 1750'.
A 1914-18 War Memorial in bronze to west wall of vestibule. Doors of an original design.
Sub-basement reported to retain elements from the Roman Wall, discovered when the building was constructed and retained in situ.
(The Builder: 19 November 1892: London: 403; The Building News: 18 November 1892: London: 722-723).
Listing NGR: TQ3297181107
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 January 2018.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466458
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in The Builder, (1892), 403
The Building News in 18 November, (1892), 722-723
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 10 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/38911
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 January 2018 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/255100
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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