24, WIGMORE STREET W1, 3, WIMPOLE STREET W1
24, WIGMORE STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066073
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 24, WIGMORE STREET W1, 3, WIMPOLE STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 24, WIGMORE STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066073
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 24, WIGMORE STREET W1, 3, WIMPOLE STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24, WIGMORE STREET W1
- Statutory Address 2:
- 3, WIMPOLE STREET W1
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 24, WIGMORE STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 3, WIMPOLE STREET W1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28637 81390
Details
TQ 2881 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER WIGMORE STREET W1 56/49 (north side) No 24 (including 14.3.66 3 Wimpole Street) GV II Shops and flats above. Dated 1893 by C H Worley. Red and blue banded brick and terracotta dressings, tiled roof, in a free Jacobethan style on corner site. Five storeys including attic. Ground floor shop fronts terracotta faced with arcaded windows and short pilasters above impost level rising to dentilled fascia, splayed corner entrance. Main feature of elevation is the large bowed corbelled oriel-tower with mullioned lights rising through to third floor and finished with parapet, above which is a set back tile hung fourth floor with tiled conical roof surmounted by a delicate cupola. The corner bay is separated from Wimpole Street front by a boldly projecting and modelled external chimney stack. Two full height canted bays with shaped finialed gables to this front with 4 mullioned and transomed lights to each floor with a bay of heavy fenestration at mezzanine level and segmental arched entrance to flats between. Sill courses and band courses at transom levels. Prominant corner site and part of the marked brick and terracotta idiom of this part of Wigmore Street.
Listing NGR: TQ2863781394
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207628
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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