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Latitude: 51.5252 / 51°31'30"N
Longitude: -0.1047 / 0°6'16"W
OS Eastings: 531581
OS Northings: 182397
OS Grid: TQ315823
Mapcode National: GBR N7.NF
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.4XJP
Plus Code: 9C3XGVGW+34
Entry Name: 18 and a Half, Sekforde Street
Listing Date: 29 December 1950
Last Amended: 30 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1209479
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369344
ID on this website: 101209479
Location: Clerkenwell, Islington, London, EC1R
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: Clerkenwell
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St James Clerkenwell
Church of England Diocese: London
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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/01/2017
TQ3281SE
635-1/74/760
ISLINGTON
SEKFORDE STREET (West side)
No.18 and A Half
(Formerly Listed as: Nos 18 1/2 SEKFORDE STREET, previously listed as SEKFORD STREET, Nos.18 1/2, Finsbury and City of London Savings Bank)
29/12/50
GV
II
Former Bank. Dated 1840 in ground floor fascia: 'INSTITUTED A.D.1816. ERECTED A.D.1840'. Probably stone, but perhaps stucco, now painted, roof of Welsh slate. Two storeys over basement, five-window range. Designed in the manner of a Renaissance palazzo. Outer bays set back at either end. Ground floor has banded and chamfered rustication; outer bays have round-arched openings, that to left now an entrance; between these seven flat-arched openings, now windows, between antae, the glazing of entrance and windows of metal and apparently early C20 in date. Fascia and moulded cornice. All first-floor windows round-arched, those to outer bays flanked by engaged columns with palm-leaf capitals and archivolt, and balustrade to sill; inner bays have three Venetian windows with Corinthian columns set back under a round arch, only the middle window having the outer arch glazed; quoins to projecting central bays and fascia inscribed 'FINSBURY BANK FOR SAVINGS'; dentil and modillion cornice; stacks between outer and inner bays.
Listing NGR: TQ3158082397
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