Great Western Hotel
GREAT WESTERN HOTEL, PRAED STREET W2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227144
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Great Western Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT WESTERN HOTEL, PRAED STREET W2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227144
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Great Western Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT WESTERN HOTEL, PRAED STREET W2
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:
- GREAT WESTERN HOTEL, PRAED STREET W2
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 26666 81229
Details
TQ 2681 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PRAED STREET, W2 52/2 (north-west side) 1.2.74 Great Western Hotel. GV II Hotel. 1851-3, opened 1854, altered 1933-6. By P C Hardwick for Great Western Railway. Brick, stuccoed except ground floor and 1st floor of centre bays which are refaced in stone. Welsh slate roof. French Second Empire style. Four storeys, attic to 7-bay centre with breaks forward, further breakforward of 5 bays under pediment. 7-bay ranges to either side with projecting 2-bay square angle towers of 6 storeys. Channelled angle pilasters. Ground and 1st floor of centre refenestrated, otherwise sashes in eared architraves. Pulvinated friezes and pediments to 1st floor windows. 3rd floor sill band. Modillion cornice with drops to central range. Pediment with sculpted figures of Peace, Plenty, Science and Industry by John Thomas. Steep pavilion roof, pedimented dormers above attic, otherwise C20 dormers. Ogee roofs to towers with pierced parapets. The first of the large purpose-built hotels in London. The Railway Heritage of Britain G Biddle and o S Nock, 1983, pp 213-5. Great Western Architecture, A Vaughan, 1977, pp 95-129
Listing NGR: TQ2666681229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424765
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Biddle, , Nock, , The Railway Heritage of Britain, (1983), 213-5
Vaughan, A, A Pictorial Record of Great Western Architecture, (1977), 95-129
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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