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87, Chancery Lane

A Grade II Listed Building in Holborn and Covent Garden, London

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Latitude: 51.5157 / 51°30'56"N

Longitude: -0.1121 / 0°6'43"W

OS Eastings: 531091

OS Northings: 181331

OS Grid: TQ310813

Mapcode National: GBR LB.ZV

Mapcode Global: VHGR0.05KD

Plus Code: 9C3XGV8Q+74

Entry Name: 87, Chancery Lane

Listing Date: 10 November 1986

Last Amended: 11 January 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1258108

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476878

Also known as: 87, Chancery Lane Wc2

ID on this website: 101258108

Location: Camden, London, WC2A

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Bride Fleet Street

Church of England Diocese: London

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Listing Text


CAMDEN

TQ3181SW CHANCERY LANE
798-1/107/1838 (West side)
10/11/86 No.87
(Formerly Listed as:
WESTMINSTER
CHANCERY LANE
No.87)

GV II

Attached house and shop, now bank. Late C18 with mid C20
alterations. Colourwashed render with stone dressings, pantile
roof with south gable and ridge rendered stacks.
STYLE: Late Georgian.
PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 6-window range. Ground-floor has Regency
style mid C20 bank frontage articulated by Doric pilasters
supporting an entablature; 6 recessed 12-pane sash windows
with incised panels below and 2 recessed panelled doors with
rectangular fanlights. The main doorway is in the second bay
to left; further doorway to end bay on right. The
configuration of the original 2 properties is denoted by the
spacing of the upper-floor windows: 2 plate-glass sashes
widely spaced to left-hand (former house) and similar sashes
closer together to right-hand (former shop).
INTERIOR: nothing survives inside either of the original room
layout or any architectural features of note.
(Summerson J: The London Building World of the 1860s).

Listing NGR: TQ3109181331

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