14 AND 16, NEW CAVENDISH STREET W1
14 AND 16, NEW CAVENDISH STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224637
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 14 AND 16, NEW CAVENDISH STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 14 AND 16, NEW CAVENDISH STREET W1
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224637
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 14 AND 16, NEW CAVENDISH STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14 AND 16, NEW CAVENDISH STREET W1
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:
- 14 AND 16, NEW CAVENDISH STREET W1
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 28393 81577
Details
TQ 2881 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER NEW CAVENDISH STREET, Wl 44/37 (South side) 5.2.70 Nos. 14 and 16 G.V. II Chambers or flats with shop. 1900, by H Saul and G Harvey.Fine red brick with stone dressings and stone faced ground floor (in granite up to low impost level); slate roof. Restrained Free Style with some Arts and Crafts relief carving and lettering. 5 storeys rising into full width gable. Tripartite ground floor and 2 widely spaced window bays to upper floors. The ground floor has doorways to flats flanking shop front, the doors recessed under extended cornice-hoods on console brackets with stylised trees carved in shallow flat relief between pairs of brackets adjoining shop front; the latter has wide and deeply moulded depressed arch. The 3 storeys above have 2 shallow segmental oriels, with mullioned-transomed leaded casement lights, and rise to soffit of bold cornice with grouped brackets. The attic storey has 2 tripartite casements of Venetian composition. The frieze of ground floor cornice is inscribed in stylised lettering "E. Davies and Son" over the shop front, flanked by relief carved tree motif. The frieze between the bowed oriels, under the main cornice, is carved with a peacock framed by foliage. The gable has freely carved large leaf scrolls as applied kneelers and elongated tree "finials" carved in relief rise from the arched lights of the attic windows to steps in the saddlestone. Arts and Crafts rainwater goods on party wall lines.
Listing NGR: TQ2839381577
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420719
- 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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