337 and 338, High Holborn London, England
Listed Building Data
337 and 338, High Holborn has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1246102
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 14 May 1974
- Name
- 337 AND 338, HIGH HOLBORN
- Location
- 337 AND 338, HIGH HOLBORN
- District
- City and County of the City of London
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 31141 81588
- Easting
- 531141.1720
- Northing
- 181588.4190
Listed Building Description
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TQ 3181 NW HIGH HOLBORN 627-0/1/10198 (South side) 14/05/74 Nos.337 AND 338 (Formerly Listed as: CAMDEN STAPLE INN, High Holborn Nos.337 & 338)
GV II*
Two chambers and later shop. The rear of these buildings forms No.4 Staple Inn (qv). c1586 for Vincent Engham, Principal of the Inn. In 1886 Alfred Waterhouse removed post-medieval additions (plaster, brick facings and sash windows, inter alia) , in a restoration funded by the Prudential Assurance Company. The structure was largely rebuilt in facsimile by Sir Edward Maufe in 1954-5. Timber frame front elevation (close studded) with brick rear under a tiled, gabled, roof. C20 chimney stacks. 4 storeys and attic. To ground floor, early C19 shop fronts with entablatures, No.338 projecting and flanked by brackets. Symmetrical front of2 gabled bays, jettied at floors with projecting oriels of31ights at 2nd floor level. Transom and mullion casement windows with square leaded panes. On the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor projecting ranges of 10 lights, flanked by 2 recessed lights and, on the 1st floor a projecting bay of3 lights to the left and 4 recessed lights to the right, on the 3rd floor projecting ranges of 4 lights. Bargeboards to gables. INTERIORS: not inspected. HISTORY: until 1886 the original casement windows survived on the 1st floor of No.337. These provided the example from which the remainder of the windows were designed. With Nos 1-4 Holborn Bars (qv), these buildings form a unique example in London of a C16 group of timber-framed houses. Formerly Listed in the LB of Camden. Since 1 April 1994 Staple Inn has been part of the City of London.
Listing NGR: TQ3115081586
