127 AND 129, HIGH HOLBORN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378879
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: 127 AND 129, HIGH HOLBORN
Statutory Address:: 127 AND 129, HIGH HOLBORN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378879
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: 127 AND 129, HIGH HOLBORN
Statutory Address 1:: 127 AND 129, HIGH HOLBORN

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:: 127 AND 129, HIGH HOLBORN

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 30420 81524

Details

CAMDEN

TQ3081NW HIGH HOLBORN 798-1/100/830 (North side) 14/05/74 Nos.127 AND 129

II

Office block, now a bank. c1904. By H Percy Adams and Charles Holden. Portland stone with granite ground floor. 4 storeys and attic. 4 bays to High Holborn, splayed corner, 4 bay return to Southampton Place. Free Classical manner with rusticated pilasters between bays carrying sill string at 3rd floor level. Round-arched entrance on corner with bracketed stone balcony above. Architraved windows, those on 1st floor with broken cornices alternating with Venetian style. Bracketed cornice, above which attic. Corner surmounted by a turret. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3042481526

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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.