4-6, BEDFORD STREET WC2, 1-5, CHANDOS PLACE WC2

1-5, CHANDOS PLACE WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066485
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 4-6, BEDFORD STREET WC2, 1-5, CHANDOS PLACE WC2
Statutory Address:: 1-5, CHANDOS PLACE WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066485
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 4-6, BEDFORD STREET WC2, 1-5, CHANDOS PLACE WC2
Statutory Address 1:: 1-5, CHANDOS PLACE WC2
Statutory Address 2:: 4-6, BEDFORD 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:: 1-5, CHANDOS PLACE WC2
Statutory Address:: 4-6, BEDFORD 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 30276 80684

Details

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BEDFORD STREET, WC2 72/112 Nos. 4 to 6 (consec.) (Including Nos. 1 to 5 consec. CHANDOS PLACE)

G.V. II

Corner block of offices. 1876-77 by the Bradford practice of Lockwood and Mawson for the Civil Service Supply Association, gutted 1984 with the facades retained and restored. Hard red brick and terracotta, leaded attic. Typical of the practice's Roman Renaissance manner in their Bradford warehouses. 3 storeys plus attic storey and basement to sloping Bedford Street side, C.20 leaded dormered mansard. 10 windows to Bedford Street, one to chamfered corner and 12 to Chandos Place front. Solid pedimented corner entrance with incised ornament and secondary pedimented doorway along Chandos Place. Ground floor windows are deeply recessed between boldly channelled brick piers with enriched banding. The 1st and 2nd floor windows are vertically linked by their terracotta dressings with architraves and on 1st floor with archivolt heads to the sashes, framed by pilasters and surmounted by pediments. The window bays to Bedford Street and flanking the corner are articulated through 1st and 2nd floors by giant Corinthian pilasters with fluted and banded shafts. Attic storey windows have eared terracotta architraves. Deep garlanded entablature carries round block over 2nd floor; attic cornice and blocking course.

Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.

Listing NGR: TQ3028380688

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Legacy System number:: 208619
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'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.