Description

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SJ 3490 SW
52/822

NORTH JOHN STREET L2 (east side)
No. 19 and 21, Melbourne Buildings

(Formerly listed as No. 19 and 21 (Solicitors Law Stationery Society))

14.3.75.

GV
II
Office building. 1854. Stucco. Five storeys, three bays. Ground floor has central wide depressed arch to shop window, and flanking round-arched doorways, rusticated. The first floor has round-arched rusticated window with keystones. Second floor has rectangular windows with enriched flat balconies, carved lintels and brackets to segmental open pediments. Fourth floor has oculi in moulded architraves with keystones (the centre eye decorated with laurel wreath). Segmental open pediment with keystone and finial. Incised inscription: "MELBOURNE BUILDINGS/1975/MDCCCLIV". C20 top storey cantilevered above the facade.

Listing NGR: SJ3436790448

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26324613

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]