39, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1, 162-165, PICCADILLY W1

162-165, PICCADILLY W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226543
Date first listed:: 30-May-1972
List Entry Name:: 39, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1, 162-165, PICCADILLY W1
Statutory Address:: 162-165, PICCADILLY W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226543
Date first listed:: 30-May-1972
List Entry Name:: 39, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1, 162-165, PICCADILLY W1
Statutory Address 1:: 162-165, PICCADILLY W1
Statutory Address 2:: 39, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 162-165, PICCADILLY W1
Statutory Address:: 39, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1

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 29175 80400

Details

TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY Wl 81/68 (south side) 30-5-72 Nos 162 to 165(consec.) (including No 39 St. James's Street) GV II Corner block of offices and shops. 1907-09 by Runtz and Ford. Marble clad, slate roof. Rich and busy Free Baroque. 4 main storeys with mezzanine to ground floor, attic storey and 2 roof storeys. Symmetrical Piccadilly front with 5 bay centre flanked by slightly advanced pavilions, splayed comer rising as bowed oriel and 3 bays to St. James's. Splayed corner entrance with pedestalled Ionic columns and pediment cut into by mezzanine. Ground floor of centre 5 bays obscured by mid C20 shop windows and fascias, the pavilions channelled with rusticated arches to mezzanine, cornice over central bays articulated by 2 storey engaged giant Ionic columns, enriched window architraves, segmental pedimented on 1st floor; pavilions have channelled giant pilasters and columned tripartite windows with cartouches and putti crowning. 3rd floor above deep entablature has enriched oculi framed by lion head capped inverted consoles, the Pavilions with cartouches. Bold crowning cornice. Attics to pavilions with rusticated arches and crowning bronze ornaments. The bowed corner oriel has tripartite windows and is surmounted above cornice by bronze sculpture group on large stone base. Similar 3 bay return to St. James's with pilastered semicircular arched doorway, with open pediment on scrolled brackets, in end bay. Survey of London; vol XXIX

Listing NGR: TQ2917280391

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Legacy System number:: 423862
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Survey of London' in The Parish of St James Westminster Part 1 South of Piccadilly: Volumes 29 and 30, , Vol. 29, (1960)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.