SHELL MEX HOUSE

SHELL MEX HOUSE, STRAND WC2

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236752
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: SHELL MEX HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SHELL MEX HOUSE, STRAND WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236752
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: SHELL MEX HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SHELL MEX HOUSE, STRAND WC2

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SHELL MEX HOUSE, STRAND WC2

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 30473 80647

Details

TQ 308 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER STRAND, WC2 72/201 (south side) 25.2.87 Shell-Mex House - II Office block. 1931. Architects Messrs Joseph (Principal Designer F Milton Cashmore). Sculptor WCH King. Portland stone. Flat roof. Eleven to fifteen storeys high. To river:- a symmetrical facade of 17 bays, stepped inwards to the upper storeys and culminating in a short central tower with clock and buttresses with inset sculpted figures. Open round arched arcade to ground floor. Square headed windows set in giant relieving arches rising from nineth to eleventh floors in fourth and fourteenth bays and to returns. Arched window below clock and to returns of tower. Metal framed casements. Returns to left and right. Strand frontage (Nos 76-88 consec) not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TQ3047380647

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Legacy System number:: 427801
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.