The Frigate Public House
THE FRIGATE PUBLIC HOUSE, GREAT NEWPORT STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213598
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Frigate Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE FRIGATE PUBLIC HOUSE, GREAT NEWPORT STREET WC2
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213598
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Frigate Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FRIGATE PUBLIC HOUSE, GREAT NEWPORT 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:
- THE FRIGATE PUBLIC HOUSE, GREAT NEWPORT 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 30048 80891
Details
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT NEWPORT STREET, 72/22 WC2 No 1 (The Frigate Public 15.1.73 House) (formerly listed as Cranbourne Public House) G.V. II Corner public house. c.1890. Red brick with painted stone bands and dressings, slate roof. Lively Jacobethan "gin palace". 4 storeys and dormered mansard. 2 windows wide, corner turret and 3 window return to Upper St. Martin's Lane. Elaborate painted stone and polished granite public house front to ground floor with corner splay entrance of double panelled and glazed doors with fanlight and segmental arched bar windows divided by enriched pilasters. Upper floors have sash windows in stone frames, those on 1st floor semicircular arched with keystones and enriched spandrels; 2nd floor with oriels, scrolled pediments and enriched aprons. Pedimented stucco gabled attics and balustraded parapet over dentil cornice. The corner turret is surmounted by a cupola and short spire with weathervane. 1970s interior designed on naval theme.
Listing NGR: TQ3004880891
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209890
- 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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