Listed building offices in the City of London: 38 Lombard Street

Listed building offices in the City of London vary a great deal in how usable they are. 38 Lombard Street is Grade II listed, set behind a classical Portland stone facade, and the two floors available inside it are well proportioned: approximately 1,236 sq ft on the third and 801 sq ft on the sixth.

What Grade II means in practice

Grade II covers buildings of special architectural or historic interest and is much the most common designation, accounting for around 92 per cent of all listed buildings in England according to Historic England. What is protected is the fabric and character of the building. Both floors here are offered CAT A, and any deal includes a landlord-led fitout, so the space arrives ready to work in.

The stone on the front

Portland stone is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset. Wren chose it for the rebuilding of St Paul's after the Great Fire and lobbied for wider extraction rights on the island to get it, and that choice established the pale limestone as London's building stone. The facades along Lombard Street and around Bank are the long result of it.

Listed neighbours on the same street

Where Lombard Street meets King William Street stands St Mary Woolnoth, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor from 1716 and completed in 1727. When Bank station was built between 1897 and 1900, the church's crypt was cleared and the building underpinned on steel girders so that the railway's booking hall could go directly beneath it. The church is still there, and so is the station.

Fergus Findlay and Tom Boggis of bbg Real Estate London can arrange a viewing, and the building is set out in full on the 38 Lombard Street website.

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