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Former Porter Tun Room, Whitbread's Brewery (South Side)

A Grade II Listed Building in City of London, London

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Latitude: 51.5205 / 51°31'13"N

Longitude: -0.0913 / 0°5'28"W

OS Eastings: 532521

OS Northings: 181897

OS Grid: TQ325818

Mapcode National: GBR R9.M4

Mapcode Global: VHGR0.C1LR

Plus Code: 9C3XGWC5+5F

Entry Name: Former Porter Tun Room, Whitbread's Brewery (South Side)

Listing Date: 29 September 1972

Last Amended: 7 June 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1262300

English Heritage Legacy ID: 435344

ID on this website: 101262300

Location: City of London, London, EC2Y

County: London

District: City and County of the City of London

Electoral Ward/Division: Coleman Street

Built-Up Area: City of London

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): City of London

Church of England Parish: St Giles Cripplegate

Church of England Diocese: London

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Listing Text

CHISWELL STREET
TQ3281NE
635-1/79/241 (South side)
29/09/72 Former Porter Tun Room, Whitbread's
Brewery (south side)
(Formerly Listed as:
CHISWELL STREET
No 1 Room Whitbread's Brewery (That
part in the London Borough of
Islington)

GV II

Porter Tun Room, that is, a storehouse, now adapted for
conferences and entertainment. 1776-1784. The lower part now
lying behind additions of c.1979 by Roderick Gradidge and
Wolff Olins. Brown brick set in Flemish bond, roof of slate.
Now of two storeys; five-window range to yard. Flat-arched
windows with frames set almost flush with the wall;
multi-paned windows; bracketed gutters to eaves; two metal air
vents to west end. King-post roof of thirteeen bays, the two
westernmost now partly obscured; the roof has the widest
timber span in London after Westminster Hall.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division; Gavin
Stamp: London 1900: London: 1978-: P.410).


Listing NGR: TQ3252181897

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