Libertys
LIBERTYS, 208-222 AND 208A, REGENT STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227689
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Libertys
- Statutory Address:
- LIBERTYS, 208-222 AND 208A, REGENT STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227689
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Libertys
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBERTYS, 208-222 AND 208A, 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:
- LIBERTYS, 208-222 AND 208A, 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 29118 81033
Details
TQ 2981 SW REGENT STREET W1
(East side)
1900/57/60
Nos. 208-222 and 208A
22.11.1973 (Even)
II
Department store block. 1925-26 by E.T. and E.S. Hall in Beaux Arts classical style; internal alterations of 1970s and 1980s. Portland stone faced block enlivened by incurving the front and use of sculpture. Rear elevation upper floors clad in white tiles. 5 storeys (ground and 1st floors/mezzanine as podium) and tall attic, concealed roof. Symmetrical elevation with 9 bays wide hemicycle above mezzanine flanked by single bay pavilions with concave corner treatment. Ground floor and mezzanine arranged as 3 major bays, between pavilions with central entrance, Swedish granite, bronze shop windows, wood framed door and display windows in triple groups; stone mullioned mezzanines with bronze guard rails in front, articulated by Roman Doric columns carrying balustrated entablature with bronze enriched obelisk dies. Rusticated piers to ground floor and mezzanine of pavilions with bowed out corner entrances, the obelisk balustrade reappearing over them. Upper floors of hemicycle have recessed metal casement windows articulated by giant engaged Ionic colonnade carrying enriched entablature above which rises a deep blind attic. Fully sculpted relief sculpted by Charles Doman and Thomas J Clapperton celebrating the wealth of distant countries being borne by camel, elephant and ship to Great Britain with figure of Britannia as centre piece, animated by stone figures peering over parapet. The pavilions have tripartite grouped windows to upper floors flanked by panelled quoin piers; main cornice broken forward over-them and bent back in over concave corners; attic storey with blocking course raised in shallow solid pediment, to front and side elevations. On the ledge above the entrance are perched four Japanese "Iohan", disciples of Buddha, which came from the original shop.
INTERIOR: No 208, formerly a bank, retains marble columns and ceiling with triglyphs and paterae. Liberty's retains original oak joinery to the lifts, door surrounds, panelling on first floor and double oak staircase to basement. Original main staircase reploaced by escalators in 1970s and suspended ceilings inserted in 1980s.
The original shop was opened at 218A Regent Street in 1875 by Arthur Lasenby Liberty.
Listing NGR: TQ2911481028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425632
- 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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