13 AND 14, CORNHILL EC3

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375721
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: 13 AND 14, CORNHILL EC3
Statutory Address:: 13 AND 14, CORNHILL EC3

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375721
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: 13 AND 14, CORNHILL EC3
Statutory Address 1:: 13 AND 14, CORNHILL EC3

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 13 AND 14, CORNHILL 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 32772 81097

Details

TQ 3281 SE CORNHILL, EC3

627-0/10/10055 Nos. 13 and 14

II

Offices. 1910. J.G.Gibson, architect. Roof parapetted. Three-window range. Nine storeys over basement. All openings flat arched unless otherwise noted. Ground and first floors treated as base, the third to fifth as middle of vertical composition; and sixth floor and above as crown. Stylised Ionic pilasters on the party walls of ground floor and pilaster strips articulating first-floor ranges. Entablature with frieze of wreaths. Second floor treated as banded rustication; sill band to third. Two storey architraves to upper floors, the centre window of fourth floor segmental arched with segmental pediment consisting of raking cornice only. Projecting cornice with ove~caled mutules to fifth floor, between each window garlanded shields. Iron railing to sixth floor, centre window of which round arched and set in segmental pediment; stone dormers to either side, the top of which form balconies to seventh floor. Centre section terminates in triumphal arch motif inspired by Lutyens' work in New Delhi. The roof extension behind, added in the late C20, is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TQ3277181094

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 469700
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.