Description

TQ3381 LIME STREET
(east side)
Nos 37-39 (consecutive)

(Formerly lsted as
Nos 36-39)

11/401

II

Office building. 1929 by Leo Sylvester Sullivan; carved details by Henry
Poole. Steel-framed, faced in Portland stone. Stripped classical style
with neo-classical details. 6 storeys; 9-bay range. Ground floor has
central pedimented doorway with acroteria, and acanthus leaf and bead-
and-reel carving to architrave. Greek key frieze beneath pediment is con-
tinued as frieze beneath continuous moulded cornice above ground floor:
square-headed windows divided by Tuscan piers and moulded full-height arch-
itraves with bracketed cornices to outer windows. Vertical strips of recessed
windows, with classical ornament to metal aprons, are set between giant order
of piers continued from cornice over ground floor to antherion capitals
beneath parapet which has moulded cornice with Greek key frieze.

Listing NGR: TQ3317581012

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082396

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record