Marconi House
8, ALDWYCH WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236757
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Marconi House
- Statutory Address:
- 8, ALDWYCH WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236757
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Marconi House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, ALDWYCH WC2
- Statutory Address 2:
- MARCONI HOUSE, 336 AND 337, STRAND WC2
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:
- 8, ALDWYCH WC2
- Statutory Address:
- MARCONI HOUSE, 336 AND 337, 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 30658 80923
Details
TQ 3080 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER STRAND, WC2 73/21 Nos 336 and 337 (Marconi House) includes No 8 Aldwych, WC2 G.V. II Offices. 1902 - 03 by Norman Shaw with Runtz and Ford, the surviving part of the Gaiety Theatre development and originally the Gaiety Restaurant; attic storey of the 1950s. Portland stone, slate roofs. Restrained Shavian classicism. 6 storeys plus later attic. 9 windows wide with long cranked return to Montreal Place and 5 windows wide Aldwych front. Arcaded, rusticated ground floor with mid C20 glazing and doorways. Upper storeys, framed by rusticated quoins, with aediculed, alternating pediment windows to 1st floor but quite plain above, apart from 3rd floor sill course, until the 5th floor where the storey is treated as frieze with the windows inserted between sculptured panels of standing figures, below the modillion cornice. Similar details to Montreal Place, where part of the original dormered attic survives, and to Aldwych where the 1st floor aedicules are framed by Ionic columns. Early and influential phase of building in the Aldwych development. R. Norman Shaw; Andrew Saint
Listing NGR: TQ3066180929
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427850
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976)
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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