DURRANT'S HOTEL

DURRANT'S HOTEL, 26-32, GEORGE STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066778
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: DURRANT'S HOTEL
Statutory Address:: DURRANT'S HOTEL, 26-32, GEORGE STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066778
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: DURRANT'S HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: DURRANT'S HOTEL, 26-32, GEORGE STREET W1

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:: DURRANT'S HOTEL, 26-32, GEORGE 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 28217 81499

Details

TQ 2881 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER GEORGE STREET, W1 44/54 (north side) Nos. 26 to 32 (even) Durrant's Hotel G.V. II Hotel. c.1780-1800 Portman Estate terrace apparently altered early C.19 as hotel, and with some mid C.20 modification. Stock brick with stucco dressings and stuccoed ground floor; slate roof. Principal feature is the use of a Tower of the Winds derived pilaster order articulating upper floors. 4 storeys and basement. 16-window wide George Street front, the windows grouped in pairs, and 11-window Manchester Street return with windows grouped in rhythm 3;4;4. Coupled column, Tower of the Winds porch in 2nd bay from right. Recessed sashes, most with glazing bars, those on ground floor with blind semicircular arches linked by moulded imposts, those on upper floors under flat gauged arches. Guilloche moulded plat band finishes off ground floor; the pilaster order articulates the window groups and rises to frieze, dentil cornice and blocking course; continuous sill band to 3rd floor. The 1st bay of windows to return are blind and an access way has been inserted at far end.

Listing NGR: TQ2821781499

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Legacy System number:: 209783
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.