THE COUNTY FIRE OFFICE

THE COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, 50, REGENT STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1227630
Date first listed:: 30-May-1972
List Entry Name:: THE COUNTY FIRE OFFICE
Statutory Address:: THE COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, 50, REGENT STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1227630
Date first listed:: 30-May-1972
List Entry Name:: THE COUNTY FIRE OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: THE COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, 50, REGENT STREET W1

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:: THE COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, 50, REGENT 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 29510 80680

Details

TQ 2980 NW & NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET Wl 70/90; 71/3 (East side) 30-5-72 No 50 (The County Fire Office) GV II Grand office block. Part of Sir Reginald Blomfield's 1910-1923 grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Regent Street Quadrant qv: By Ernest Newton, completed 1924. Stone faced, with slate roof. Classical details, design complementary and a variant on Blomfield's. Circus facade to former Swan & Edgar's store (Nos 9 to 18 Piccadilly). Tall podium carrying 3 storeys and an attic storey. 3 wide bays. Pulvinated and channelled podium with open semicircular arched arcade over pavement. 3 storeys above,ashlar faced with giant rusticated pilaster strips, the windows vertically linked through storeys and read as tall openings - segmented headed and hooded. Rich modillion cornice. The attic storey is elaborately swagged and festooned with oculi and has a stepped blocking course above its cornice rising in the centre to a rectangular block surmounted by a sculptural group of Britannia and lion. Behind rises a corniced drum with a copper dome and gilded finial. The drum is flanked by monumental stone stacks. The main facade to Piccadilly Circus closes the vista up Lower Regent Street. A one bay return to right forms the link with the plainer facade in Glasshouse Street.

Listing NGR: TQ2951080680

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.