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Latitude: 51.5123 / 51°30'44"N
Longitude: -0.1077 / 0°6'27"W
OS Eastings: 531406
OS Northings: 180965
OS Grid: TQ314809
Mapcode National: GBR MD.Y1
Mapcode Global: VHGR0.27XZ
Plus Code: 9C3XGV6R+WW
Entry Name: Former Argus Printing Company
Listing Date: 15 August 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375288
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466173
ID on this website: 101375288
Location: Holborn, City of London, London, EC4Y
County: London
District: City and County of the City of London
Electoral Ward/Division: Castle Baynard
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of London
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): City of London
Church of England Parish: St Bride Fleet Street
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TQ 3180 NW
627-0/13/10107
TEMPLE AVENUE, EC4
Nos. 8-10 (even) (former Argus Printing Company)
II
Former Headquarters of the Argus Printing Company. Designed by Charles Valentine Hunter and built between 1896 and 1897. Foundations by Messrs Greenwood and the superstructure was built by Patman and Fotheringham. Portland stone, brick and Ruabon terracotta dressing. Carved stone frieze.
Four storeys over basement. Six-window range to Temple Avenue and eleven-window range to Tudor Street. Commercial style blending features from the Romanesque and Tudor periods. Rusticated stone to ground floor with round-arched and elliptical-arched openings. Basket-arched openings to the first floor. Carved sill band to second floor and entablature with dentil cornice to the third floor. All second and third floor windows are flat arched with mullions and transoms. Balustrade parapet to roof. A carved shield bourne by a winged Argus adorns the corner at street level. The last bay on the Temple Street elevation permits vehicles to come and go with deliveries.
The Argus Printing Company was founded in 1884 by Harry Marks and was responsible for printing the Financial Times. The building was one of a clutch of purpose-built printing offices in this area south of Fleet Street. These structures were put up following the 1870s, their construction encouraged by the City Corporation as part of a programme of general street improvements. Others of note include: Carmelite House, 1897-9, by Herbert 0. Ellis (q.v.) and Temple House, next to the Argus works, and erected in 1893 to the designs of Frederick Boreham (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ3141180965
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