Nationwide Anglia Building Society
NATIONWIDE ANGLIA BUILDING SOCIETY, 49, HEATH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378826
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Nationwide Anglia Building Society
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONWIDE ANGLIA BUILDING SOCIETY, 49, HEATH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378826
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Nationwide Anglia Building Society
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONWIDE ANGLIA BUILDING SOCIETY, 49, HEATH STREET
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:
- NATIONWIDE ANGLIA BUILDING SOCIETY, 49, HEATH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26357 85792
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2685NW HEATH STREET
798-1/26/797 (West side)
14/05/74 No.49
Nationwide Anglia Building Society
(Formerly Listed as:
HEATH STREET
No.49
National Westminster Bank)
II
Fire station, later bank, now building society with
accommodation over. c1873. By GJ Vulliamy as head of the
Metropolitan Board of Works' Architects' Department. Red brick
with stone and terracotta dressings. Tiled gabled roof with
stone bracketed eaves cornice. Venetian Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with irregular 3-5 storeys return to Holly
Hill. Irregular fenestration. 3-stage rectangular clock tower
rising from 1st floor on left hand return. Heath Street facade
with C20 stone faced shopfrontage. 1st floor, 5-light arcaded
window of attached columns carrying pointed arches; centre
light blind with patterned terracotta plaque; stone sill
string. Arch heads break into enriched stone and terracotta
band at 2nd floor level inscribed "MBW AD 1873". Half-hipped
gable with 2-light 2nd floor window in pointed arch recess
with enriched tympanum and apron. Clock tower with dentil
cornice at roof level and above narrow opening on each facade.
Clock face on each facade with continuous projecting modillion
cornice above. Return with gabled end bay having cornice at
3rd floor level; mostly paired sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the watch tower was also a water tower, one
of the first buildings for London's new horse-drawn fire
brigade to have one. Originally also with steeple. The fire
station closed 1915 when a new one opened in Lancaster Grove.
Listing NGR: TQ2635785792
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478183
- 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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