The Ritz Hotel
THE RITZ HOTEL, PICCADILLY W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1226499
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1965
- List Entry Name:
- The Ritz Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE RITZ HOTEL, PICCADILLY W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1226499
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1965
- List Entry Name:
- The Ritz Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RITZ HOTEL, PICCADILLY 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:
- THE RITZ HOTEL, PICCADILLY 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 29072 80320
Details
TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY W.1 81/65 (south side) The Ritz Hotel 10.3.65 GV II* Grand hotel. 1906 by Mewés and Davis, their first major London commission. Norwegian granite and Portland stone cladding one of the earliest steel frames. Green slate roof. Very much a Parisian design, of rue de Rivoli and Place Vendome derivation, with typically enlarged yet restrained Beaux Arts detailing. 6 storeys and 2 tiers of dormers in steep mansard. Podium-ground floor channelled arcade over pavement, the semicircular arched openings with carved bearded and female head keystones. Arched openings behind, with late C20 shop fronts,flanking main entrance. Upper floors,with central and flanking 5 bay pavilions framed by channelled pilaster strips,have 1st and 2nd floor windows linked by through-storey architraves with enriched cornices over 2nd floor; segmental arched flat surround 3rd floor windows with carved head keystones; Louis XV style iron window guards. Mutule cornice over 4th floor; balustraded parapet to set back attic storey; applied pediments to attics of pavilions. Ornamental leadwork cresting roof ridges. Similar details to return elevations to Green Park and Arlington Street where there is a wrought iron and glazed canopied entrance. Richly gilded Louis XV interiors with convincing detailing executed with splendid panache, concentrated in the central Fountain Court and in the Restaurant at the Green Park end of the axial promenade-corridor.
Listing NGR: TQ2907280320
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423822
- 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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