Former Jewellers' Shop (James Hardy and Co)
Former Jewellers' Shop (James Hardy and Co), 235, Brompton Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242948
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Former Jewellers' Shop (James Hardy and Co)
- Statutory Address:
- Former Jewellers' Shop (James Hardy and Co), 235, Brompton Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242948
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Former Jewellers' Shop (James Hardy and Co)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Jewellers' Shop (James Hardy and Co), 235, Brompton Road
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:
- Former Jewellers' Shop (James Hardy and Co), 235, Brompton Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 27233 79129
Reasons for Designation
No. 235 Brompton Road is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest and rarity: an elaborate, high-quality Art Nouveau style shop front of c.1900-1905 retaining most of its original components
* Interior: while altered, some original features of note survive, including the doors to the display windows and decorative plasterwork to the ceiling
Details
249/0/10326
BROMPTON ROAD
235, Former Jewellers' shop (James Hardy and Co)
22-MAR-11
II
Jewellers' shop. Built 1886-7 as part of a block of flats with a parade of ground-floor shops. Built by Alexander Thorn, completed by Matthews Brothers & Co. The shop front dates from c1900-1905, or a little thereafter.
This listing relates to the ground-floor shop unit only, and not the residential premises above (No. 67 Egerton Gardens).
EXTERIOR: the outer components of the shop front: pink granite pilasters with stylised Ionic capitals carved with figures, date from 1886-7. The shop front itself dates from the Edwardian period. It is double fronted with a central recessed lobby, low black granite stallrisers and a timber fascia with carved lettering reading 'Goldsmiths JAS. Hardy & Co. Silversmiths'. The shop front has a mahogany frame with curved plate-glass display windows to either side of the lobby, each with a slender mullion with carved base and top. The transom lights have elaborate Art Nouveau curvilinear glazing bars with bevelled glass, continuing as an arched fanlight across the lobby. The soffit above the lobby, which has original mirror glass and a metal lantern, and the fanlight above the door, are similarly detailed. The glazed door has scrolled decoration, an asymmetrical curving lower panel, and original brass door furniture. The lobby floor has coloured mosaic tiles with Art Nouveau motifs and 'Diamond Merchants' in black lettering.
INTERIOR: the display windows are enclosed by the original glazed mahogany timber doors. The glass shelves carried on decorative steel brackets are probably later insertions. The shop interior is altered, but retains decorative plasterwork to the ceiling. The internal display cabinets are modern, and not of special interest. The rear room has a plaster cornice and vertical sliding window shutters.
HISTORY: the shop was originally the premises of the London branch of James Hardy & Co, an established Edinburgh and Aberdeen jewellers. In 1897 William Cooper purchased the business and its premises at 235 Brompton Road where he, and subsequent owners until 2010, continued to trade under the title of James Hardy & Co.
SOURCES:
Survey of London, Vol 41: Brompton, (1983) 121-2
Directory of Gold & Silversmiths, Jewellers & Allied Traders 1838-1914 Vol I, (1987) 210
Morrison, K, English Shops and Shopping, (2003)
REASON FOR DESIGNATION:
No. 235 Brompton Road, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest and rarity: an elaborate, high-quality Art Nouveau style shop front retaining most of its original components
* Interior: while altered, some original features of note survive, including the doors to the display windows and decorative plasterwork to the ceiling
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510004
- 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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