Millicent Fawcett Hall
MILLICENT FAWCETT HALL, 29, MARSHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249936
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Millicent Fawcett Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MILLICENT FAWCETT HALL, 29, MARSHAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249936
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Millicent Fawcett Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILLICENT FAWCETT HALL, 29, MARSHAM STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MILLICENT FAWCETT HALL, 46, TUFTON 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:
- MILLICENT FAWCETT HALL, 29, MARSHAM STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MILLICENT FAWCETT HALL, 46, TUFTON STREET
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 29987 79140
Details
MARSHAM STREET TQ297330 1900-/100-101/10003 No 29 (including no 46 Tufton Street) Millicent Fawcett Hall GV II Conference hall with library & restaurant, 1927-9 by Douglas Wood for the London & National Society for Women's Service. Multi-coloured brick with stone faced entrances. Single storey with basement. Irregular L-shaped plan. Main entrance on yard behind carriage entrance of no. 31 Marsham Street; subsidiary entrance to rear known as no. 46 Tufton Street. Main entrance has a distyle Ionic portico with dentil entablature & blocking course. Doorway of double-panelled, wooden doors with overlight having small panes; flanking, narrow, vertically-set windows with panelled glazing. To the left, a foundation stone inscribed "This foundation stone was laid by Millicent Garrett Fawcett CBE LLD, 24th April 1929". Hall has horizontally-set clerestory windows with margin glazing. Tufton Street entrance has a stone-faced doorway with panelled overdoor supported by consoles & a carved Women's Service emblem; part-glazed double doors. Interior:- 4-bay hall, bays marked with pilasters rising from a wooden dado to barrel vaulted roof, apsidal-ended to east & west end with a stage having a wooden proscenium arch of curved acanthus leaf design. North side with tall metal-framed windows lit from a light well. Tufton Street access into rear of the hall along a narrow, vaulted, top-lit corridor. Top-lit library retains original fireplace & some shelving with pillars flanking the fireplace. Basement restaurant with columns having ram's mask capitals & quarry tiled floor; catering kitchens. History:- Millicent Fawcett Hall was specifically planned, built & paid for by the women who led the constitutional campaign for equal political rights. It was the site of intensive educational activities & campaigning for economic and moral equality for women by the London and National Society for Women's Service, now known as the Fawcett Society. The library housed what is now the largest & oldest library in Britain devoted entirely to the study of women.
Listing NGR: TQ2998779140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432156
- 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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