Essex Watergate Closing South End of Street
ESSEX WATERGATE CLOSING SOUTH END OF STREET, ESSEX STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066823
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Essex Watergate Closing South End of Street
- Statutory Address:
- ESSEX WATERGATE CLOSING SOUTH END OF STREET, ESSEX STREET WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066823
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Essex Watergate Closing South End of Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESSEX WATERGATE CLOSING SOUTH END OF STREET, ESSEX STREET WC2
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:
- ESSEX WATERGATE CLOSING SOUTH END OF STREET, ESSEX 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 31101 80903
Details
TQ 3180 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ESSEX STREET, WC2 74/10 Essex Watergate 14.1.70 Closing south end of street GV II G.V. II "Triumphal" gateway. c1676 built by Barbon as a terminal feature to his "polite" Essex Street development, screening his commercial development of the wharf below. Damaged during World War II, the gateway was repaired and incorporated into the 1953 building across the end of the street. Pseudo-Roman pomp and circumstance. Giant order of fluted Corinthian pilasters on pedestals supporting archivolt arch. A typical piece of Barbon bravura "pour epater les bourgeois".
Listing NGR: TQ3109780907
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209700
- 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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