12 Flitcroft Street (London)

 office building, Victorian (architecture), Grade II Listed (UK), 1878_construction

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Warehouse, now open-plan offices. Dated 1878 on gable plaque. For William Addis. Yellow stock brick. Pantiled roof. 4 storeys 8 bays. Entrance to right in red rubbed brick archway on small column corbels; keystone inscribed WA. C20 glazing to entrance. From the arch 2 brick pilasters with stone capitals supporting a round-arched head flank part-glazed doors. To left, a cast-iron hoist bracket. Small gable over this bay with date-stone. Left hand bays of gauged brick segmental-arched windows to each floor, the bays articulated by brick pilaster strips. Parapet. INTERIOR: has softwood flitch beams supported on cast-iron columns to ground and 1st floor. King post trusses of timber with cast-iron king posts. Some original features remain, eg. slots for drive belts. c1930s stair. HISTORICAL NOTE: William Addis was a firm of wholesale ironmongers. Following the 2nd World War it was used as a warehouse by Crosse and Blackwell. No.12 is an unusual survival of a warehouse in this part of London and forms a group with a further warehouse, No.6 Flitcroft Street, (qv).
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