Kettner's Restaurant
37-39, GREEK STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235281
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Kettner's Restaurant
- Statutory Address:
- 37-39, GREEK STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235281
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Kettner's Restaurant
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37-39, GREEK STREET W1
- Statutory Address 2:
- KETTNER'S RESTAURANT, 28-32, ROMILLY 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:
- 37-39, GREEK STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- KETTNER'S RESTAURANT, 28-32, ROMILLY 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 29818 81015
Details
TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER ROMILLY STREET, W1 58/82 18.9.75 No. 28 to 32(consec.) (Kettner's Restaurant) (Including Nos. 37-39 Greek Street) GV II Former terrace houses, now restaurant. c.1735 (late C17 fabric in part) through to c.1768, altered as restaurant between 1868 and the 1880s. Painted brick and stucco, concealed roofs. 4 storeys and basements. Each former house front 3 windows wide to Romilly Street but the corner elevation and former Nos. 37 to 39 Greek Street 2 windows wide. Doorways altered to windows with early C20 canopied restaurant entrance at No. 29. Recessed glazing bar sashes, in stucco architraves on ground floor, but those on 2nd floor of No. 29 flush framed and some with exposed boxing, generally under flat gauged arches except for segmental arches to 2nd floor of No. 31. Stucco plat bands except for No. 28. Parapets with copings, cornice and blocking course to corner house and heavy cornice and blocking to former No. 39 Greek Street. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. Interiors much altered for restaurant with the 2nd floor of the Greek Street houses taken up by large room with Edwardian panelling in Jacobean style, but No. 28 retains part of early C18 dog leg staircase with slender turned balusters. Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.
Listing NGR: TQ2981881015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425885
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Anne Soho: Volumes 33 and 34 , Vol. 33, (1966)
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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