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

• Wikidata Q27083062

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings