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Latitude: 51.5149 / 51°30'53"N
Longitude: -0.1074 / 0°6'26"W
OS Eastings: 531425
OS Northings: 181253
OS Grid: TQ314812
Mapcode National: GBR NC.13
Mapcode Global: VHGR0.3630
Plus Code: 9C3XGV7V+X3
Entry Name: 7, Wine Office Court
Listing Date: 4 May 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1252320
English Heritage Legacy ID: 435307
ID on this website: 101252320
Location: Holborn, City of London, London, EC4A
County: London
District: City and County of the City of London
Electoral Ward/Division: Castle Baynard
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 Bride Fleet Street
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
The following building shall be added:
WINE OFFICE COURT
TQ 3181 SW
(west side)
627-/7/10048 No. 7
II
Offices, 1868-70 by John S Lee for Robert Burt and Company, printers, but between 1870 and
1892 the first home of the Press Association. Stock brick with stone dressings. Three-bay plan
with narrower central bay over door, four storeys. Roof obscured behind projecting modillion
cornice. All windows with glazing bar sashes; single windows to third floor and in centre. the
latter with round heads; to either side on lower floors tripartite windows separated by thin
barley-sugar columns with tiny Ionic capitals and under four-centred arches with decorated
spandrels. Ironwork to ground floor. Four-panelled door under plain fanlight in incised moulded
surround with keystone under console-bracketed cornice. Interior simple, save for foyer, with
deep cornice, inner archway, and timber and glass screen under pediment. Stairs with curved
lower flight, and timber balustrades.
It was the establishment of the Press Association in these premises that triggered the
development of Fleet Street, long noted for its printing trades, as the centre of the British
newspaper industry.
Listing NGR: TQ3142581253
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