143 AND 144, FLEET STREET EC4

FLEET STREET EC4 1. 5002 (North Side) Nos 143 and 144 TQ 3181 SW 7/84

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1. Late C19; elaborate carved stone gothic facade; 2 gabled bays; 4 storeys and roof storey; the ground floor with modern shopfronts within and partly concealing original stone surround with zigzag and prism and rope mouldings. A pair of canted oriels of shallow projection occupy almost the whole width of the facade, rising through 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, containing at each level paired stone mullioned sash windows With elaborately traceried heads; traceried panels to the blind returns and window aprons and pierced tracery to the oriel parapets; the party divisions emphasized by rope moulded shafts rising through the 3 upper storeys. In a hooded niche at 1st floor level between the oriels a statue of Mary, Queen of Scots. Finely shaped, pierced and ornamented bargeboards to the twin gables. Tiled roof with iron cresting. Prominent stone party stacks with relief carving and moulded caps.

Listing NGR: TQ3144581193