Number 1 and Attached Railings
NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1, STAMFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385933
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1, STAMFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385933
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1, STAMFORD 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:
- NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1, STAMFORD STREET
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 31629 80375
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3180 STAMFORD STREET 636-1/1/744 (South side) No.1 and attached railings
GV II
Commercial building, now offices. c1870. Red brick with stone dressings, further colour added by black and white brick detail. High slate mansard roof. Corner block with canted entrance bay on the angle. EXTERIOR: 2-window ranges to both elevations. 3 storeys with dormers to mansard, over basement. Pedimented dormers: 2 to Stamford Street, one on the corner, and another to Blackfriars: a further straight-headed, 4-light dormer adjacent to the latter. These windows set behind decorative iron cresting which caps the strongly modelled bracketed eaves cornice. At 2nd-floor level the openings are all round-arched, with 2x2 sashes under polychromatic brick arches; there is a continuous arcade of 5 windows to Stamford Street; corner window with projecting balcony; 2 groups of 3 windows to Blackfriars. Broad sill band to 2nd-floor windows of patterned brickwork, punctuated at regular intervals by terracotta knobs set in square surrounds. Similar format to 1st-floor windows, this time arranged in 2 groups of 2-light windows, each with authentic 2x2 sashes; 3-light windows to Blackfriars. As before the window in the canted bay opens onto a balcony, here supported by the entrance porch. The ground floor is rusticated and decorated at cornice level with knobs of polished Peterhead granite. There are 3 tall rectangular windows to the Stamford Street and 4 to Blackfriars, with the main entrance sheltered by a rusticated porch. There is a subsidiary door to Stamford Street which appears to be of an authentic design, but the main double doors and all the glazing on this floor is of recent vintage. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: fine railings to Stamford Street basement area and attractive ironwork to the 1st-floor balcony. A handsome building designed to make the most of its prominent position looking toward Blackfriars Bridge. Forms a group with No.3 Stamford Street (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ3162980375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471353
- 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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