King Edward Mansions and Sovereign House
KING EDWARD MANSIONS, 2-20, GRAPE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245859
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1996
- List Entry Name:
- King Edward Mansions and Sovereign House
- Statutory Address:
- KING EDWARD MANSIONS, 2-20, GRAPE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245859
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1996
- List Entry Name:
- King Edward Mansions and Sovereign House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING EDWARD MANSIONS, 2-20, GRAPE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SOVEREIGN HOUSE, 210-226, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE
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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:
- KING EDWARD MANSIONS, 2-20, GRAPE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SOVEREIGN HOUSE, 210-226, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE
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 30120 81387
Details
TQ3081SW
798-1/105/1850
CAMDEN
SHAFTESBURY AVENUE (South East side)
Nos.210-226 (Even) Sovereign House
07/05/96
GV
II
Includes: Nos.2-20 King Edward Mansions GRAPE STREET.
Shops with former showrooms and offices over, flats over shops to Grape Street range. 1902-8. Almost certainly by C Fitzroy Doll, surveyor to the Bedford Estate and the local District Surveyor.
Brick with exuberant terracotta dressings and decorations, slate roofs with high stacks dressed in terracotta. Angled plan of two intersecting ranges with central courtyard serving flats reached under No.210 Shaftesbury Avenue.
EXTERIOR: five storeys and attics. Profoundly asymmetrical composition. Angled two-bay range with projecting two-storey oriel adjoins Shaftesbury Theatre (qv), then thirteen-window range to Shaftesbury Avenue. Corner bartizans with projecting turrets, that and its adjoining bay to Grape Street with machicolations, as has a similar turret to right of centre of main composition and two three-storey oriels. These and oriel set over entrance to chambers at right of composition are all mounted on fat columns set between shopfronts and first-floor former showrooms, and with undersides embellished with organic decoration. The other shops separated by fluted Roman Doric engaged columns with dentil cornice, over which are first-floor former showrooms separated by engaged Ionic columns. The shopfronts largely renewed in sympathetic fashion: that to No. 218 may be original; first-floor showrooms, now offices, with large plate glass windows under small-paned toplights, little altered. All windows to upper floors mullion and transom casements in terracotta surrounds, with notched lintels linked as bands across composition, and with many projecting bands, moulded cornice and parapets. Attic dormers inserted mid-C20 and not of interest. Balcony over entrance to offices.
Return to Grape Street (King Edward Mansions) similarly treated though with higher stacks, with broad, square bartizan on corner, a round one in the middle and one of each at far end, all with machicolations. Three oriels inbetween, one round on moulded plinth, one canted (both with balustraded tops) and one square which rises to the line of a heavy modillion cornice. Shop fronts to ground floor, some with cast-iron grilles, have simple mouldings and tripartite toplights. First floor former showrooms with small top lights in broad mullion and transom casements. Flats served by courtyard to rear of No. 210 Shaftesbury Avenue, with stone access balconies on cast-iron brackets, sash windows and part-glazed doors.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
Included primarily for the quality of its street facades, an exceptionally powerful example of Doll's work for the Bedford Estate using fine terracotta.
Listing NGR: TQ3013481382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477963
- 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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