18-20, COVENTRY STREET WC2
18-20, COVENTRY STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220705
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 18-20, COVENTRY STREET WC2
- Statutory Address:
- 18-20, COVENTRY STREET WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220705
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 18-20, COVENTRY STREET WC2
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18-20, COVENTRY 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:
- 18-20, COVENTRY 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 29632 80689
Details
TQ 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER COVENTRY STREET, WC2 72/117 Nos 18 to 20 (consec)
G.V. II
Former restaurant now part of Trocadero. 1892-94 by Treadwell and Martin, built as (the fatuous) Scott's Restaurant and Oyster Bar; now completely altered internally as part of the Trocadero complex. Painted Bath stone. Freely handled "Early French Renaissance" with carved enrichments. Corner site with Great Windmill Street. Gabled fronts, 5 windows wide to Great Windmill Street and slightly asymmetrical 4-window wide Coventry Street front with turret to corner. 4 storeys and attic in gables. Ground floor arcaded with stunted columns of polished dark Labrador granite on plinths. The upper floors have windows with quadrant corners to lintels articulated by slender through storey shafts with broad, clustered half shafts flanking the central 3 bays with gables rising above, pinnacled parapets. The corner has oriel turret with apron panels elaborately enriched with scallop-shell carving. Enriched carved bands between storeys. Prominent corner site.
Listing NGR: TQ2963280689
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209340
- 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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