Great Portland Street Underground Station
GREAT PORTLAND STREET UNDERGROUND STATION, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213650
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Great Portland Street Underground Station
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT PORTLAND STREET UNDERGROUND STATION, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213650
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Great Portland Street Underground Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT PORTLAND STREET UNDERGROUND STATION, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
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:
- GREAT PORTLAND STREET UNDERGROUND STATION, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
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 28862 82171
Details
TQ 2882 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT PORTLAND STREET, 36/14 Wl Great Portland Street 19.1.87 Underground Station - II Underground station with shops. c.1912 Metropolitan Line station. Cream faience tile faced with slate mansard roof. Elliptical plan with entrances in slightly advanced pavilions at cardinal points and perimeter shops surrounding booking hall-concourse. Free Classical style. 2 storeys. East and west pavilions, with rusticated quoins, have central, semicircular arched, keystoned entrances flanked by square headed keystoned openings; 1st floor with 2 architraved windows alternating with 3 architraved panels. North pavilion 4 windows wide with central semicircular arched entrance in rusticated surround flanked by semicircular arched opening and blind recess each side. South pavilion single storeyed finishing at 1st floor cornice continuous around building. In between pavilions are shops and windows on ground floor and alternating casemented windows and panels on 1st floor, as on east and west pavilions; in north-east and north-west quadrants shops are separated by engaged Doric columns. Crowning cornice and blocking course. Concourse top lit with square Doric piers, stone faced with marble plinths, encircling c.1930 booking office under altered lantern; pilasters to outer perimeter flanking shop fronts. Original banded tilework to south wall and stairs down to platforms; 1930s tiled geometric paving to concourse floor.
Listing NGR: TQ2886282171
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209897
- 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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