126, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
126, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066747
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 126, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 126, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066747
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 126, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 126, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
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:
- 126, GREAT PORTLAND 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:
- TQ 28980 81732
Details
TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT PORTLAND STREET, W1 45/62 (east side) 14.1.70 No. 126 - II Offices and shop. c.1898 by A. Beresford Pite. Red brick and sparse painted stone dressings; slate roof. Free Style Queen Anne with more Baroque accent to ground floor and strong vertical emphasis. 4 storeys and dormered steep mansard. Narrow front with full height canted bay and narrow single window bay to right. Ground floor has tripartite shop front composition framed in bolection moulded eared architrave; central doorway flanked by chamfered pilasters with boldly modelled almost Byzantine caps supporting freely modelled brackets to cornice overhanging on cove, carried across front and raised in segmental hood over door. On upper floors the canted bay has flush framed sashes with segmental arches recessed under blind semicircular relieving arches, all slightly set back in full height reveal giving flanking pilaster effect; the narrow sash lights to splayed sides have similar relieving arches. To right hand there is one recessed segmental arched 2 light casement to each floor. Parapet with coping. Central large canted dormer.
Listing NGR: TQ2898081732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209901
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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