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13 and 14, Cornhill EC3

A Grade II Listed Building in City of London, London

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Latitude: 51.5132 / 51°30'47"N

Longitude: -0.088 / 0°5'16"W

OS Eastings: 532772

OS Northings: 181097

OS Grid: TQ327810

Mapcode National: GBR SC.CQ

Mapcode Global: VHGR0.F7B9

Plus Code: 9C3XGW76+7Q

Entry Name: 13 and 14, Cornhill EC3

Listing Date: 22 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375721

English Heritage Legacy ID: 469700

ID on this website: 101375721

Location: City of London, London, EC3V

County: London

District: City and County of the City of London

Electoral Ward/Division: Walbrook

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of London

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): City of London

Church of England Parish: St Michael Cornhill

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


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

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