NUMBERS 23 ALBEMARLE STREET AND 16A, 16B AND 16C GRAFTON STREET

16A,16B,16C, GRAFTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066523
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 23 ALBEMARLE STREET AND 16A, 16B AND 16C GRAFTON STREET
Statutory Address:: 16A,16B,16C, GRAFTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066523
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 23 ALBEMARLE STREET AND 16A, 16B AND 16C GRAFTON STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 16A,16B,16C, GRAFTON STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 23, ALBEMARLE STREET W1

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

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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:: 16A,16B,16C, GRAFTON STREET
Statutory Address:: 23, ALBEMARLE 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:: TQ2898180657

Details

TQ 2880 NE 69/1

CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALBEMARLE STREET, W1 No 23 (including Nos 16a,16b, 16c Grafton Street)

GV II

Purpose built shops and chambers. Dated 1896. Hard red brick and terracotta. Jacobean with some Art Nouveau Renaissance detailing. Prominent 5 storey corner block. 5 windows to Albemarle Street, corner turret and 5 windows to Grafton Street. Arched ground floor treatment for shops, their windows projecting in part as rectangular bays with glazed half "barrel vaults". Two 3-storey segmental and canted oriel bays to Albemarle Street, the corner turret corbelled with lead dome. Similar oriels to Grafton Street but one of 2 storeys only. Shallow relief Art Nouveau terracotta panel over Albemarle Street doorway. Corner turret columns have more conventional Renaissance decoration on shafts.

Listing NGR: TQ2898180657

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Legacy System number:: 208518
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.