The Quadrant
14-18, QUADRANT ARCADE W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227631
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Quadrant
- Statutory Address:
- 14-18, QUADRANT ARCADE W1
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- 2007-03-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/16347/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227631
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Quadrant
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14-18, QUADRANT ARCADE W1
- Statutory Address 2:
- 15A, AIR STREET W1
- Statutory Address 3:
- 5-17, QUADRANT ARCADE W1
- Statutory Address 4:
- 52-100, REGENT STREET W1
- Statutory Address 5:
- 9, 19, 27 AND 29, GLASSHOUSE STREET W1
- Statutory Address 6:
- THE QUADRANT, 74A, REGENT STREET 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:
- 14-18, QUADRANT ARCADE W1
- Statutory Address:
- 15A, AIR STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 5-17, QUADRANT ARCADE W1
- Statutory Address:
- 52-100, REGENT STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 9, 19, 27 AND 29, GLASSHOUSE STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- THE QUADRANT, 74A, 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 29415 80666
Details
TQ 2980 NW & NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET Wl
70/91 ; 71/4 (East side)
30-5-72 Nos 52 to 100 (even) and
74A THE QUADRANT (inclu-
ding Nos 9, 19, 27 and
29 Glasshouse Street and
Nos 5 to 17 (odd) and 14
to 18 (even) Quadrant
Arcade and No 15A Air St
GV II
Quadrant of offices, shops and arcade. The north eastern half of
Sir Reginald Blomfield's grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Regent
Street Quadrant. Designed from c. 1911, taking Norman Shaw's
neo-Baroque set piece of the Quadrant elevation of his Piccadilly
Hotel as key and scale and completed 1920-23. Stone faced, slate
roofs. Podium embracing ground floor and mezzanine. 3 storeys
above and dormered steep mansard. The podium has bold pulvinated
rustication to its articulating piers, ashlar upper floors with
windows in flat surrounds; rich modillion eaves cornice; continuous
range of dormers and bronze cresting to ridge; prominent banded and
corniced stone stacks. The penetration of Air Street is marked by
a rusticated semicircular arched bridge with open giant 3
storey Doric columned loggia above, a la Somerset House. The
composition is terminated by slightly advanced pavilions with
concave, pyramidal cupola-roofs. The Quadrant Arcade has 2 storey
glass fronted shops divided by coupled pilasters, Ionic to ground
floor and of Tower of Winds derivation to 1st floor. No 68, The
café Royal, was rebuilt behind Blomfield's facade by Sir Henry
Tanner, 1923-28, retaining elements of the original decoration of
the 1865-72 cafe Royal by Archer and Green, in particular the
sumptuous gilt caryatids and mirrors in the Grill Room.
Listing NGR: TQ2941580666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425542
- 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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