The Haymarket Theatre (Theatre Royal)
THE HAYMARKET THEATRE (THEATRE ROYAL), HAYMARKET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1066641
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Haymarket Theatre (Theatre Royal)
- Statutory Address:
- THE HAYMARKET THEATRE (THEATRE ROYAL), HAYMARKET SW1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1066641
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Haymarket Theatre (Theatre Royal)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HAYMARKET THEATRE (THEATRE ROYAL), HAYMARKET SW1
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:
- THE HAYMARKET THEATRE (THEATRE ROYAL), HAYMARKET SW1
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 29777 80509
Details
TQ 2980 NE and SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HAYMARKET, SW1 71/98 ; 82/6 The Haymarket Theatre 14.1.70 (Theatre Royal) (Including Nos. 18 and 19 Suffolk Street) G.V. I Theatre. Rebuilt 1820-21 by John Nash, contemporary with his Regent Street and Suffolk Street development, and resited to close Charles II Street vista. Stucco, slate roof. Augustan neo-classicism. 2 storeys and lofty sheer attic storey. 7 window bays wide. Giant pedimented portico of 6 Corinthian columns built out over pavement with entrance doorway to each flank with oculus above. The back wall of portico has 5 archivolt and key arched doorways with 5 architraved sash windows to 1st floor. The modillion bracket cornice of portico is returned across the flanks. The tall sheer attic wall above portico is pierced by a row of radial glazed oculi set in panel below frieze which with main cornice and blocking course extends the width of the facade. Rear to Suffolk Street is stuccoed, 4 storeys, 5 windows wide; rusticated ground floor with central rusticated- pilaster, corniced doorway ; 1st floor has arcaded windows (unique theatre feature in that they give directly on to the backstage) with sunk panels beneath sills; cornice below attic storey with elliptical windows between sunk panel pilasters. Auditorium redesigned in elegant 'Louis XVI' style in 1904 by C Stanley Peach. Survey of London; Vol. XX. The Theatres of London; Mander and Mitche
Listing NGR: TQ2977780509
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210132
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mander, , Mitchenson, , The Theatres of London, (1975)
Survey of London in Trafalgar Square and neighbourhood The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 3: Volume 20 , Vol. 20, (1979)
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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