THE ADELPHI THEATRE

THE ADELPHI THEATRE, 411, STRAND WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264304
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: THE ADELPHI THEATRE
Statutory Address:: THE ADELPHI THEATRE, 411, STRAND WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264304
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: THE ADELPHI THEATRE
Statutory Address 1:: THE ADELPHI THEATRE, 411, STRAND WC2

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:: THE ADELPHI THEATRE, 411, STRAND WC2

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 30353 80695

Details

CITY OF WESTMINSTER STRAND WC2 TQ 3080 NW No 411 72/105 (The Adelphi Theatre) II Theatre. Dating back to the Sans Pareil of 1806 with extensions and rebuilds of 1824, 1834, 1846-48, 1858, 1868, the 1880s, 1900-01 until the last major rebuilding of 1930 by Ernest Schaufelberg retaining the side and rear walls, c.f. Nos 18 to 20 Maiden Lane. Terracotta facade to Strand. Angular "moderne" design. Height equivalent to 4 storeys and a 3 bay width. Above fully canopied ground floor with chrome framed glazed doors to foyer, the front has its right hand two thirds recessed as full height broad black painted sign panel and is finished off with parapet, an alteration of 1937, but directly above the canopy,screened by hoarding, is a large, horizontal elongated octagon window with hexagonal and lozenge glazing pattern, that is original to Schaufelberg's design. Interior has long rectangular foyer with 1930s chrome and plaster decor and light fittings: the auditorium is an angular straight sided design with 2 concrete framed cantilevered balconies; squared off faceted proscenium, polished wood flush panelling to walls, upcast house lights etc. For the c. 1868 Royal Entrance and stage door/dressing room block see Nos 18 to 20 Maiden Lane. Survey of London; vol XXXVI The Theatres of London; Mander and Mitchenson.

Listing NGR: TQ3034680708

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Legacy System number:: 428224
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Mander, , Mitchenson, , The Theatres of London, (1975)
'Survey of London' in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, , Vol. 36, (1970)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.