27 and 28 King Street
27 and 28, King Street WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221462
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 27 and 28 King Street
- Statutory Address:
- 27 and 28, King Street WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221462
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 27 and 28 King Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27 and 28, King 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:
- 27 and 28, King 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 30198 80842
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on 19 March 2025 to amend details in the description and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 3080 NW
72/28
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
KING STREET, WC2
Nos. 27 and 28
15.1.73
G.V.
II
Offices. No. 27 of C.18 origin altered early C.19 and refronted by Charles Mayhew 1853-54 and 1856, with No. 28 rebuilt to match No. 27 in 1856-58 by Thomas Little all for the Westminster Fire Office. Stucco faced, slate roof. Still retaining neo classical features overlaid with Italianate details. Four storeys and basement. Five windows wide (the grouping in three and two bays revealing different builds). The ground floor, with mid C.20 display windows and doorways, is screened by a Roman Doric colonnade of five alternately narrow and wide bays, the entablature surmounted by richly scrolled rinceaux cast iron balcony with panelled and ball finialed dies. Channelled first and second floors with architraved recessed casements surmounted by entablatures, the friezes of the first floor ones pulvinated. Square architraved windows to third floor, with consoled sills, separated by panels. The central 2nd floor window of left hand group of three is replaced by large and boldly modelled cartouche of arms with Prince of Wales feathers surmounting wreathed portcullis. Sill bands, that to second floor inscribed "Westminster Fire Offices"; deeply moulded frieze with large pairs of ornamented consoles rising from 3rd floor panels to projecting moulded cornice. Cast iron second floor window guards. Cast iron area railings of geometric pattern. Interior retaining fine late classical 1st floor boardroom redecorated by Professor Sir Albert Richardson. Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.
There is a pair of wall-mounted Windsor gas lanterns positioned at the north and south entrances to the Lazenby Court passage. The one at the south entrance is an early model, probably pre-1910.
Listing NGR: TQ3018080857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413277
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, Vol. 36, (1970)
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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