32, ESSEX STREET WC2
32, ESSEX STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211757
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 32, ESSEX STREET WC2
- Statutory Address:
- 32, ESSEX STREET WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211757
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 32, ESSEX STREET WC2
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32, 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:
- 32, 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 31090 80952
Details
TQ 3180 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ESSEX STREET, WC2 74/8 24.2.58 No 32 G.V. II* Terrace house. Early to mid C18 rebuild of Barbon house. Brown brick, slate roof. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide. Entrance to left with panelled door and semicircular fanlight on wooden doorcase of Doric columns, dosserets and open pediments. Recessed sash windows under flat gauged arches. Stone plat band over ground floor and stone sill bands; parapet with coping. Interior retains passage hall with pilastered archway to closed moulded string staircase with turned and twisted balusters; panelling and box cornices largely intact on 1st and 2nd floors, etc.
Listing NGR: TQ3109080952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209701
- 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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