Gresham Street
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Gresham Street
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 19 Mar 2011
The building at the corner of King Street (nos. 42-44) dates from 1850-52 and was the work of Sancton Wood, a pupil of Robert Smirke. Pevsner comments on the quality of the decoration and speculates that the ground floor arcade of segmental arches, a common later motif, may here have been an innovation of Wood. It was built for the Queen's Assurance Company. Grade II listed. Adjoining it are more late-C19th commercial buildings.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.514916
Longitude
-0.092019