25 And 27, Farringdon Road

Workshops were built in 1873-4 by Harding and Bond for Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., a company of engravers who printed banknotes. They are constructed of polychromatic brick in yellow, red, and black, with stone facing to the ground floor, and stone dressings.

The building is six storeys high and in the Venetian Gothic style. It has eight bays facing Farringdon Road and a rounded, slightly recessed corner bay, followed by seven bays facing Greville Street, with the central bay slightly advanced. The ground floor consists of a stone-faced base with renewed windows set between piers. Above this rises a tall brick gothic arcade, embracing the next three floors, where the windows are slightly recessed. A stone-surrounded entrance rises through the first floor, featuring an arched three-light window. Four-pane sash windows are divided vertically by brick and terracotta aprons, with central slender iron column mullions, those to the second floor rising through the aprons to the small round-headed windows above, to support stone tracery filling the arcade arch which springs from stone imposts. A corbelled cornice is located at the third-floor level, above which there are two attic storeys of sash windows in pairs and triplets, with decorative stone heads, separated by a brick cornice and divided by iron column mullions. A brick and stone cornice tops the building. The Greville Street elevation is similar, with a Gothic gable over the second bay to the left and a Gothic doorway in the centre bay. The interior has not been inspected.