The Langham Hilton
The Langham Hilton, 1C, Portland Place, London, W1B 1JA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227056
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Langham Hilton
- Statutory Address:
- The Langham Hilton, 1C, Portland Place, London, W1B 1JA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227056
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Langham Hilton
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Langham Hilton, 1C, Portland Place, London, W1B 1JA
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 Langham Hilton, 1C, Portland Place, London, W1B 1JA
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 28880 81498
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 October 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 2881 NE and SE
45/135; 56/151
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
PORTLAND PLACE (west side) Wl
No 1C (The Langham Hilton)
(Formerly listed as The Langham (BBC))
22.11.73
G.V.
II
Hotel once offices. c.1864-65 by Giles and Murray, built as the Langham Hotel. Stock brick with Portland stone dressings. Vast "grand" hotel of the 1860s hotel boom, designed in heavy Italianate style with some late Medieval details, French pavilion roofs and east wing with corner tower.
Five main storeys on basements and dormered attics. Symmetrical north front with seven-window wide centre flanked by three-window pavilions. Central prostyle stone porch with arched openings flanked by pilasters carrying entablature and balustraded parapet. Recessed semicircular arched sashes linked by continuous carved impost bands; canted stone bay windows to ground and first floor of pavilions with arched sashes flanked by pilasters carrying entablature. The north east corner of east wing is carried up as square belvedere. East front to Langham Place has large central two storeyed bow window. Rusticated ground and first floors; stringcourses and heavy crowning cornice with attic windows in frieze below, alternating with carved panels of mythological animals, and balustraded parapet above. Segmental pedimented dormers in pavilion roofs. Lofty chimney stacks. This vast pile closes the south axis of Portland Place.
Listing NGR: TQ2887981513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424601
- 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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