Description

1.
5111 PICCADILLY BD1
(east side)

No 8
SE 1633 SW 36/959

II GV

2.
Dated 1871, former History and Scientific Institute. Italianate and slight
Renaissance details. Three tall storeys, dressed sandstone "brick" with
ashlar dressings and ground floor. Three bay front. On ground floor window
bays flanked by grooved piers rising from plinth, foliate band coping
Entablature with blocking courses as sill band to first floor; second floor
sill band. Deep modillion bracket eaves cornice. Shop fronts inserted to
ground floor window bays and modern glazed shop doors to centre. The upper
part of original doorway survives with large console brackets supporting
balconette with pierced circle balustrade. Two light windows, with foliate
capped pilasters dividing, in eared architrave surrounds on first floor. The
centre window is narrower and has flanking pilasters frieze and pediment with
acroterion. Plaque above in centre of top floor with medallion relief of
eagle and inscription. The flanking windows have plain dividing mullions.

Listing NGR: SE1637133252

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26425871

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