12, Floral Street Wc2

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER FLORAL STREET, WC2. 72/9 15.1.73 No. 12 II Former parish schools. First built 1838 by E.H. Browne, altered and largely refronted by C.G. Searle in 1860. Stucco, slate roof. Italianate style probably recommended by Charles Parker the Bedford Estate Surveyor. Lofty 3 storey front set back with to right a 4 storey entrance/staircase tower projecting to building line. 4 windows wide. Entrance at foot of tower with archivolt keyed arch, panelled door and blind lunette with 1860 date tablet. Recessed front has tall closely set architraved and archivolt arched and keyed windows to each floor with radial glazing to heads; ground floor window partly altered to door. Panelled applied pedestal to 1st floor windows, bracketed sill course to 2nd floor, crowning cornice returned over tower. The latter is treated as a belvedere-campanile with rusticated quoins with bracketed eaves cornice to pyramidal lead covered roof. Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.

Listing NGR: TQ3026580921