FORMER LONDON COUNTY BANK

FORMER LONDON COUNTY BANK, 17, CAMBERWELL GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378400
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER LONDON COUNTY BANK
Statutory Address:: FORMER LONDON COUNTY BANK, 17, CAMBERWELL GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378400
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER LONDON COUNTY BANK
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER LONDON COUNTY BANK, 17, CAMBERWELL GREEN

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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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER LONDON COUNTY BANK, 17, CAMBERWELL GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32517 76759

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3276 CAMBERWELL GREEN 636-1/11/128 (West side) No.17 Former London County Bank

GV II

Bank. Dated 1899 over entrance. For London County Bank. Roofs of slate and cupola covered partly in metal. STYLE: Baroque Revival. PLAN: main block on corner is rectangular in plan, with a full-height canted bay to south; the return treated as a lower wing, giving the whole a roughly L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys stepping down to 2 along return on Camberwell New Road. 3-window range to Camberwell Green; 2-window range to south-facing elevation of 3 storeys; scattered fenestration to long return. All openings are flat-arched. Vermiculated and rusticated plinth continuous, filling area below ground-floor window sills; walls above are banded in stone and granite blocks; there is stone and brick banding to upper floors. Main entrance in bay set in a most elaborate aedicule consisting of a pair of coupled Ionic columns (the shafts of granite), supporting entablature blocks and segmental pediment, the tympanum of which is recessed and ornamented with low relief carving depicting a wreathed shield and seraphim, and bearing the date and initials "LCB" in florid script; reclining on the pediment are a pair of nearly free-standing allegorical figures, the whole arrangement borrowed from Michelangelo's Medici tombs; the figure on the left appears to be Mercury; that on the right may represent thrift. Between these muscular and very movemented figures is a plaque bearing the word "Bank". The 1st-floor window above is incorporated into this grand entrance aedicule and has a shouldered and eared architrave topped by a pediment formed from a raking cornice only; this latter feature repeated on all 1st-floor windows of the main 3-storey block. The 2nd-floor bay window has a shouldered and eared architrave. 2nd-floor return to Camberwell Green treated as a recessed loggia of 3 bays, each marked by a pair of Tuscan columns with single end responds. All ground-floor windows on this elevation have shouldered and eared architraves topped by cartouches, which at the time of writing are covered with a late C20 sign fascia. There is an entablature with bracketed cornice, the whole topped by a balustrade, continuous over the

main block; obelisk caps at corners and rear. Steeple of 2 stages above canted bay, corner pilasters to 1st stage; 2nd stage sets back and has urns and coupled Tuscan columns at corners. The lower wing is, by comparison, informal and rambling, though united with the first by the use of similar materials. Its notable features include: shallow canted bay with triple, mullioned windows of stone to 1st and attic floors; bay rises from elaborate carved cartouche; 2nd flat-arched entrance with original panelled door and Art Nouveau-inspired hardware. Stacks to party and end walls. INTERIOR: through double doors of original design to domed foyer; interior door surround is a wood aedicule no less exuberant than that outside.

Listing NGR: TQ3250876759

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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.