43 and 45 New Oxford Street including 16 West Central Street
16, West Central Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113170
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 43 and 45 New Oxford Street including 16 West Central Street
- Statutory Address:
- 16, West Central Street
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113170
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 43 and 45 New Oxford Street including 16 West Central Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16, West Central Street
- Statutory Address 2:
- 43 and 45, New Oxford Street
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:
- 16, West Central Street
- Statutory Address:
- 43 and 45, New Oxford Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30167 81438
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 May 2022 to correct address, remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards
TQ3181SW
798-1/105/1887
CAMDEN
NEW OXFORD STREET (South East side)
Nos.43 AND 45
GV
II
Includes: No.16 WEST CENTRAL STREET.
Terrace of shops and offices. 1843-7. Under the direction of James Pennethorne as Architect and Surveyor for Metropolitan Improvements appointed following a House of Commons Select Committee in 1836. Stuccoed brick with banded quoins and rustication, slate roofs. A group of commercial premises on a canted site treated as two distinct units. The premises survive well above C20 ground-floor shops, the upper floor having sash windows with small-paned glazing bars in moulded architrave surrounds, under heavy cornices and parapets, that to No.45 with balustrade. No.45 has arcaded first floor fenestration, which continues along return to West Central Street on ground floor also.
INTERIORS not inspected.
The group is the most prominent intact survival of Pennethorne's most important Metropolitan Improvements Commission for the Commons Select Committee.
Listing NGR: TQ3016781438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477594
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tyack, G, Sir James Pennethorne and the Making of Victorian London, (1992), 50-64
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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