1, King William Street London, England
Listed Building Data
1, King William Street 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1252015
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 15 May 1990
- Name
- 1, KING WILLIAM STREET
- Location
- 1, KING WILLIAM STREET
- District
- City and County of the City of London
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 32745 81014
- Easting
- 532744.7960
- Northing
- 181014.1790
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
KING WILLIAM STREET TQ 3281 SE 10/331 No 1
II GV
Bank with offices over. 1921-2 by William Campbell-Jones and Alex Smithers for the London Assurance Co. Portland stone, chanelled at ground floor, ashlar to upper, facing a steel frame with staircases and vaults in reinforced concrete. Slated mansard roof with stepped dormers. 5 storeys, attics and semi-basement. Main facade 5 windows. Classical style on a triangular site. Semi-basement with large metal framed windows of frosted square panes with margins at edges and centre a top frieze of small rectangular panes; fronted by cast iron rail- ings having simplified urn finials. Ground floor openings architraved with festooned console keystones; recessed metal framed windows with margin glazing. Plain band at first floor level supporting giant pilasters, with cartouche capitals, at angles which carry the main entablature with projecting bracketed cornice at 4th floor level and continued around the building. Smaller first floor windows giving mezzanine effect, each with balustraded balcony and separated by pilasters with wreaths terminating with entablature above 2nd floor windows, each with alternating cornice or pediment on console brackets. 3rd floor windows architraved, 4th floor attic storey plain; moulded eaves cornice. Main entrance at right hand angle being 4 storeys running into the building on an axis canted at an angle to the St Swithins have elevation. Hexagonal ante- porch with openings on 3 sides having plain surrounds with console brackets supporting aedicules over; steps within, ceiling with sunken dome; doorway altered. Left hand angle curved with 3 windows; 2nd floor centre opening, a round-arched niche enriched with a festoon. At roof level, a pilastered 2-storey rotunda with copper dome resting on enriched copper brackets. The shape of the site was exploited to create interestingly shaped rooms, in particular on the 1st and 2nd floor. Planning on an axial line took full advantage of the pen area on the south. The battered ground floor allowed more light into the building. No 1 forms a group with Nos 3-7 King William Street and Nos 1-6 Lombard Street.
Listing NGR: TQ3273480979
