Description

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. MARTIN'S LANE, WC2
72/23
30.1.74 No. 70 (Including
No. 27 Garnick Street)
G.V. II
Bank premises on corner site. c.1860. Painted brick with stucco
dressings, slate roof. Still in a late neo-classical idiom with a few more
Italianate details. 3 storeys and basement. 7 windows wide curving
segmentally round corner. Central entrance to corner of stucco ground
floor in semicircular keystoned arched opening with panelled door and
fanlight; ground floor plate glass windows in semicircular arched openings
with keys; all framed by Tuscan pilasters carrying entablature with dentil
cornice. Upper floors, with stucco rusticated block dressings, have
recessed sashes, no glazing bars, in stucco architraves with
console-bracketed dentil cornices on 1st floor. Console-bracketed
cornice with crowning balustrade. Wrought iron railings enclose ground
floor in front of basement lights.

Listing NGR: TQ3007480854

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083062

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)