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| English Heritage Reference: | 418377 |
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| RBKC Reference: | 31/16 |
| Property: | BANK MELLI IRAN, FORMERLY PUBLIC LIBRARY 98A |
| Street: | KENSINGTON HIGH STREET , W8 |
| Date: | 15/04/1969 |
| Grade: | II |
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| Description: | Former public library, now bank. Dated 1852. Elizabethan style. Two storeys, red brick, and stone dressings. Five windows wide. Centre and ends project. Three-light stone mullioned and transomed windows. Diamond paned casements. Ground floor has enriched 4 centred arched porch. Canted bay over with heraldic frieze, octagonal clock turret rising above roof with ogival dome. Projecting bay windows to ground floor of outer bays with battlements. Elaborate stone coped Dutch gables with Gothic statue niches to outer bays. Slates. Openwork parapet. |
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