87 AND 88, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1
87 AND 88, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1235898
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 87 AND 88, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- 87 AND 88, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1235898
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 87 AND 88, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 87 AND 88, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1
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:
- 87 AND 88, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1
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 29305 80109
Details
TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. JAMES'S STREET SW1 81/117 (West side) Nos 87 and 88 5.2.70 GV II* Corner office block. 1903-04 by R. Norman Shaw and Ernest Newton for the Alliance Assurance Company. Portland stone, slate roof. Intuitive mannerist classicism of Shaw's last phase. 4 storeys and dormer. The main front closes Pall Mall vista with 3 bay ground floor and mezzanine podium changing to 5 bays on 1st and 2nd floors finished off with a 3 bay pedimented attic storey. Podium has boldly banded rustication and voussoirs to 3 large semicircular arched openings framing office and mezzanine windows and containing central doorway with inset rusticated columns. Rusticated quoins to upper floors, the 1st floor windows with segmental pediments on consoles and stone balconettes with bombé "Rococo" ironwork, the 2nd floor windows with keystoned flat arches linked by impost string - both floors with sill courses, consoles to the 2nd floor window sills. Projecting modillion eaves cornice broken in centre by lifted attic with open pediment and heavy voussoirs to central window contrasting with lightness of leaded casement dormers. Return to Cleveland Row has rusticated end pavilions with 5 windows between, those to 1st floor corniced with balconettes similar to those of main front; the rear elevation a simplified version of front. Office interiors probably detailed by Newton. Survey of London, vol XXX R. Norman Shaw; Andrew Saint, 1975.
Listing NGR: TQ2929080106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426771
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976)
Survey of London in The Parish of St James Westminster Part 1 South of Piccadilly: Volumes 29 and 30, Vol. 30, (1960)
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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