19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2, 5, BROAD COURT WC2
19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066402
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2, 5, BROAD COURT WC2
- Statutory Address:
- 19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066402
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2, 5, BROAD COURT WC2
- Statutory Address 1:
- 19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2
- Statutory Address 2:
- 5, BROAD COURT WC2
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:
- 19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2
- Statutory Address:
- 5, BROAD COURT 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 30372 81093
Details
TQ 3081 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD COURT, WC2 59/8 No. 5 Includinq Nos. 19 and 20 Bow Street
G.V. II
Office chambers and bank. 1897 by R.S. Wornum. Portland stone ground floor with stone dressed red brick above, slate roof. Asymmetrical Queen Anne style corner composition with good Arts and Crafts detailing. 2 and 3 storeys with attic. 3 windows wide to Bow Street, 3-window gable end return and 3-window wing linking with corner pavilion-tower to right. Doorways to left of Bow Street front and to gable end return, in architraves with heads swept up into point below cornices, oculus over Bow Street doorway. 2 large semicircular arched ground floor windows to Bow Street, recessed for one order with keystones, 3 lights divided by wooden pilasters and transom. Flush framed segmental arched glazing bar sashes to upper floors. Bracketed stone cornice. Barrel roofed dormers. The cornice is returned across gable end with generally similar fenestration to ground and upper floors with in addition, contained in the shaped gable, an elaborated "Baroque" window framed by blocked columns; stone cartouche to corner at 1st floor level. The link wing is of 2 storeys with same sash windows to 1st floor, parapet with coping and dormered mansard. The right hand corner pavilion is canted with 2 windows to Broad Court and one to corner, and is developed at attic level as an octagonal tower with ogee lead cupola and finial.
Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.
Listing NGR: TQ3037081088
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208807
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, Vol. 36, (1970)
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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