Stanford's
27A, Floral Street, WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222308
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Stanford's
- Statutory Address:
- 27A, Floral Street, WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222308
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Stanford's
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27A, Floral Street, WC2
- Statutory Address 2:
- Stanford's, 12-14, Long Acre, 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:
- 27A, Floral Street, WC2
- Statutory Address:
- Stanford's, 12-14, Long Acre, 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 30137 80897
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 19 March 2025 to amend the description and reformat the text to current standards.
TQ 3080 NW
72/15
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
LONG ACRE, WC2
Nos, 12 to 14 consec. (Stanford's) (Including No. 27A Floral Street)
15.1.73
II
Office-commercial premises. c.1900-01 by Herbert Read and Macdonald. Red brick with stone dressings and stone faced ground and 1st floors. Eclectic Flemish Renaissance style.
Four storeys and attic in crowning gable. Three windows wide broad front. Ground floor has double shop front with central entrance flanked by engaged Doric columns and enriched architrave display windows, under entablature. Upper floor windows principally four-light leaded casements with enriched stone surrounds, mullions and transoms; the first and second floors respectively with paired pilasters and quoins and with central window bay projecting and finished off with semi-elliptical pediment with reliefs in tympanum (globe flanked by putti with cartouche inscribed "E.D. 1900"), enriched aprons inscribed "STANFORD" on first floor and with Royal Coat of Arms to that of second floor. Attic storey framed and crowned by stone dressed Dutch gable. The block extends back to Floral Street where there is a plain warehouse elevation.
There is a wall-mounted Grosvenor gas lantern to the Rose Street elevation. The lantern has twin pilots, a four-mantle burner and a vitreous enamel reflector. The flat-plate bracket has a single 's' curl for decoration.
Listing NGR: TQ3014080886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414454
- 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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