CHARLES H FOX LIMITED AND ROBERT WHITE AND SONS HARPER AND ROW LIMITED

CHARLES H FOX LIMITED AND ROBERT WHITE AND SONS, 22, TAVISTOCK STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066230
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: CHARLES H FOX LIMITED AND ROBERT WHITE AND SONS HARPER AND ROW LIMITED
Statutory Address:: CHARLES H FOX LIMITED AND ROBERT WHITE AND SONS, 22, TAVISTOCK STREET WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066230
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: CHARLES H FOX LIMITED AND ROBERT WHITE AND SONS HARPER AND ROW LIMITED
Statutory Address 1:: CHARLES H FOX LIMITED AND ROBERT WHITE AND SONS, 22, TAVISTOCK STREET WC2
Statutory Address 2:: HARPER AND ROW LIMITED, 28, TAVISTOCK STREET WC2

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHARLES H FOX LIMITED AND ROBERT WHITE AND SONS, 22, TAVISTOCK STREET WC2
Statutory Address:: HARPER AND ROW LIMITED, 28, TAVISTOCK STREET WC2

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 30510 80882

Details

TQ 3080 NW and NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER TAVISTOCK STREET, 'WC2 72/ 35 ; 73/25 (south side) 15.1.73 No.22 (Charles H Fox Ltd and Robert White and Sons) and No 28 (Harper & Row Ltd) (formerly listed as No's 26 and 28) GV II Corner block of offices. c1857 by G F Fry as the offices of the Strand District Board of Works whose survey or was Fry. Stucco, slate roof. Italianate style. 3 storeys and cellars. 4 windows wide with single window bowed corner and 2-window return to Burleigh Street. Rusticated ground floor with corner entrance approached by flight of steps (No 28) consisting of an archivolt arched doorway flanked by engaged columns carrying entablature with enriched panel above inscribed with the Strand Board's title. Entrance to No 26 to left with archivolt arched doorway with console bracketed pediment and key mask. Altered ground floor windows with mask keystones. Triplicate 1st floor windows with cornices and semicircular arched 2nd floor windows with fruit-enriched pendants to consoles carrying pediments over them,and enriched aprons; the south bay of Burleigh Street return has windows of Venetian type. Both floors are articulated by pilaster orders, Ionic over Doric; the crowning entablature with blocking course. Prominent corner site. Survey of London; Vol XXXVI

Listing NGR: TQ3051580885

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Legacy System number:: 207239
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Survey of London' in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, , Vol. 36, (1970)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.