CENTRAL TIMBER FRAMED ARBOUR/TOOL SHED

CENTRAL TIMBER FRAMED ARBOUR/TOOL SHED, SOHO SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249910
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: CENTRAL TIMBER FRAMED ARBOUR/TOOL SHED
Statutory Address:: CENTRAL TIMBER FRAMED ARBOUR/TOOL SHED, SOHO SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249910
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: CENTRAL TIMBER FRAMED ARBOUR/TOOL SHED
Statutory Address 1:: CENTRAL TIMBER FRAMED ARBOUR/TOOL SHED, SOHO SQUARE

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:: CENTRAL TIMBER FRAMED ARBOUR/TOOL SHED, SOHO SQUARE

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 29698 81249

Details

SOHO SQUARE TQ 2981 SE CENTRAL TIMBER- FRAMED ARBOUR/TOOL SHED 1900/58/10001 GV II Garden arbour/tool shed forming the centre piece of Soho Square c1925- 6, built by Messrs J. Strutt & Co, 27 Endell Street for the Charing Cross Electricity Company as a disguise for an electricity sub- station. Brick and breezeblock core with timber-framing of re-use C17/18 floor beams having rendered infill panels; an old (pre C17?) 4-centred head to south door. Clay peg tiled conical roof with upswept projecting eaves on shaped brackets & gabled dormers to north & south elevations having shaped bargeboards. Tudorbethan style, built to appear as an octagonal market cross building. 2 storeys, 8 windows. Overhanging 1st floor supported on round arched arcading with carved spandrels. North & south elevations have double panelled doors with 4-centred heads. 1st floor windows of 3 lights and gables 4 lights, all with carved timber trefoil heads.

Listing NGR: TQ2969881249

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Legacy System number:: 432139
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.