17-19, COCKSPUR STREET SW1
17-19, COCKSPUR STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219872
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 17-19, COCKSPUR STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- 17-19, COCKSPUR STREET SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219872
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 17-19, COCKSPUR STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17-19, COCKSPUR STREET SW1
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:
- 17-19, COCKSPUR STREET SW1
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 29839 80387
Details
TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER COCKSPUR STREET, SW1 82/37 9.1.70 Nos. 17 to 19 (consec)
G.V. II
Headquarters offices. 1907 by Sir Aston Webb. Portland stone on steel frame, slate roof. Lofty, restrained "Roman Mannerist" desiqn. 6 storeys and dormered mansard. 6 windows wide. Ground floor has 1970s shop front with facing carried up to 1st floor sills. 1st floor channelled with plain square headed windows; 2nd floor with architraved windows grouped in pairs with alternating segmental and triangular pediments; architraved windows to upper floors, the attic windows set in concave splays between piers. Dentil cornice below attic storey, and heavy crowning modillion cornice. Dormers with alternating pediments. Second and 5th floors have stone balconettes. Sculpted and coloured heraldic panels at 3rd and 4th floor levels and cartouche plaques flanking central pair of 2nd floor windows with similar plaque dead centre above them. Interior of ground floor has a wide painted frieze by Sir Frank Brangwyn.
Survey of London; Vol. XX.
Listing NGR: TQ2983980387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209301
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Trafalgar Square and neighbourhood The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 3: Volume 20 , Vol. 20, (1979)
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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