Minerva House, North Crescent
MINERVA HOUSE, NORTH CRESCENT, CHENIES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242934
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Minerva House, North Crescent
- Statutory Address:
- MINERVA HOUSE, NORTH CRESCENT, CHENIES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242934
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Minerva House, North Crescent
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINERVA HOUSE, NORTH CRESCENT, CHENIES STREET
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:
- MINERVA HOUSE, NORTH CRESCENT, CHENIES STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29565 81862
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2981NE CHENIES STREET
798-1/99/204 (North side)
Minerva House, North Crescent
GV II
Former car showroom and repair workshop with offices over.
1912-13. By George Vernon. For the Minerva Motor Company.
Portland stone ashlar.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys 5 bays. Symmetrical design with a concave
front corresponding to the crescent. Ground floor openings
with rounded corners have billet moulding and are separated by
thin V-profile fillets. Entrances in outer bays
segmental-arched with Mannerist detail; part-glazed panelled
double doors, inscribed above "Minerva House", and overlights.
Window openings formerly with sliding shutters and mahogany
folding doors. The articulation of the upper 3 storeys
corresponds to the ground floor, with narrower flanking bays
set over the doors. Very slender engaged columns rise through
the full height culminating in stylised Doric entablatures
with wreaths and drops at bays. Bowed, stone transom and
mullion windows, 4-light to central bays, 3-light to outer,
with small panes and Ionic half-column jambs; panelled
spandrel panels between 1st and 2nd floor. 3rd floor central
bay supports swag enriched base to triumphal arch feature
containing a carved statue of Minerva in front of a window.
Flanking bays have enriched broken pediments with cartouches.
Outer bays repeat the arch motif on a smaller scale to windows
with swagged aprons. Cast-iron railings to bays 2 and 4.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ2956581862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476889
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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