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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 209890
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.