26, SOHO SQUARE W1
26, SOHO SQUARE W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236302
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 26, SOHO SQUARE W1
- Statutory Address:
- 26, SOHO SQUARE W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236302
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 26, SOHO SQUARE W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, SOHO SQUARE 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:
- 26, SOHO SQUARE 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 29775 81226
Details
TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOHO SQUARE, W1 58/24 24.2.58 No. 26 GV II* Terrace town house. 1788-89, probably to the owner Sir William Robinson's designs. Stock brick, stucco ground floor, slate roof. 3 storeys and dormered mansard. 2 bays wide. Ground floor altered with 2 pairs of panelled and glazed c.1900 doors up flight of steps. 1st floor has large single Venetian window inscribed in semicircular arched reveal with stuccoed tympanum, the tripartite window framed by an Ionic order of pilasters and columns with entablatures and central archivolt, blind balustrade between dies below sill. 2nd floor with recessed sashes (later C19 glazing) under flat gauged arches. Painted stone cornice and parapet with coping, 1st floor sill band. Window guards to 2nd floor. Extensive interiors (as the site extends south behind No. 1 Greek Street) retaining a number of good original features, despite alterations, including Ionic colonnade screen to large top lit stair compartment with stone staircase rising to 1st floor cantilevered gallery with scrollwork wrought iron balusters of great delicacy, lion mask decorated band at 2nd floor level, bracketed cornice below ceiling cove with guilloche surround to large roof light; richly modelled cornices and numerous carved and pedimented doorcases and good joinery including doors veneered in mahogany by Thomas Chippendale, built-in bookcase etc. Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.
Listing NGR: TQ2977581226
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427257
- 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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