MINERVA HOUSE, NORTH CRESCENT

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:: MINERVA HOUSE, NORTH CRESCENT, CHENIES STREET

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 476889
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.