WESTERN CORNER BLOCK OF FORMER CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL

WESTERN CORNER BLOCK OF FORMER CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL, WILLIAM IV STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224573
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: WESTERN CORNER BLOCK OF FORMER CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: WESTERN CORNER BLOCK OF FORMER CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL, WILLIAM IV STREET WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224573
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: WESTERN CORNER BLOCK OF FORMER CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: WESTERN CORNER BLOCK OF FORMER CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL, WILLIAM IV STREET WC2

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WESTERN CORNER BLOCK OF FORMER CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL, WILLIAM IV 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 30174 80631

Details

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WILLIAM IV STREET, WC2 72/158 Western Corner Block of Former Charing Cross 29.4.87 Hospital G.V. II Former hospital. 1831 built as the Opthalmic Hospital and part of Nash's West Strand Improvements, probably executed by William Herbert, mid to later C19 alterations, stucco, slate roof. Very restrained Grecian detailing. 3 storeys, attic storey and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide with 3 window return splayed across corner of junction with Chandos Street. Central Greek Doric portico. Recessed sashes, some with glazing bars in shallow architraves. Main entablature over 2nd floor, cornice and blocking course to attic. West return has ground and first floors built out with glazed in Pilastered 1st floor loggia. Absorbed as part of former Charing Cross Hospital late C19. Survey of London; Vol XX

Listing NGR: TQ3017480631

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Legacy System number:: 207642
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'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.