Covent Garden Market Building
COVENT GARDEN MARKET BUILDING, COVENT GARDEN WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1066949
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Covent Garden Market Building
- Statutory Address:
- COVENT GARDEN MARKET BUILDING, COVENT GARDEN WC2
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- Date:
- 2001-09-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/05157/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1066949
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Covent Garden Market Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- COVENT GARDEN MARKET BUILDING, COVENT GARDEN 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:
- COVENT GARDEN MARKET BUILDING, COVENT GARDEN 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 30360 80894
Details
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER COVENT GARDEN, WC2. 72/11 Covent Garden market 24.2.58 building
G.V. II*
Former covered market buildings. 1828-30 by Charles Fowler. Granite, stock brick and stucco, slate and glass roofs. Triple ranges in a neo-classical composition. North and south elevations have 12 bay granite monolith Doric colonnades flanking central 2 storey, pedimented Venetian entrances, the ranges terminating in square 2 storey lodge pavilions with pyramidal chimney-finialed lead roofs. The east end has a 4-deep Doric column portico with balustraded terrace and a pediment gable decked with urns and a sculptural group marking The Central Avenue: an arcade of restored shops with mezzanine windows set in arcade, with 5 attic storey lights, above each bay, set behind dwarf Doric columns, glazed roof on kingpost trusses. The former open market spaces between the ranges were roofed in 1874-75 and 1888-89 by Cubitt's with iron columns linked by skeleton arches supporting semicircular trusses of glazed and slated roof with open clerestory. The west front of the Central Avenue has a 5-bay colonnade carrying 7 window wide 1st floor with entablature arched over centre framed by pediment gable; 5-bay colonnades flank the inner faces of the outer ranges at the west end balancing the centre feature. The whole of the complex has been restored by the GLC.
Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI. Covent Garden Market; Robert Thorne.
Listing NGR: TQ3036080894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209337
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thorne, R, Covent Garden Market, ()
Survey of London in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, Vol. 36, (1970)
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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