8, RUSSELL STREET WC2
8, RUSSELL STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265108
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 8, RUSSELL STREET WC2
- Statutory Address:
- 8, RUSSELL STREET WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265108
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 8, RUSSELL STREET WC2
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, RUSSELL STREET WC2
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:
- 8, RUSSELL STREET 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 30451 80943
Details
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER RUSSELL STREET, WC2 72/12 15.1.73 No. 8 - II Terrace house with shop. c.1759-60. Plum coloured stock brick, yellow stocks to rebuilt parapet, concealed roof. Astylar, 3 storey and attic storey front. 3 windows wide. Ground floor has altered C20 "Regency" shop front. Upper floors have recessed plate glass sashes under flat gauged red brick arches. Stone bracketed cornice over 2nd floor; parapet with coping. Interior retains original turned baluster staircase in fully panelled well; more panelling in 1st floor rear room. The house was the residence and shop of the bookseller Thomas Davies from c.1760 to his death in 1785, much frequented by the literati and actors of the period; it was at Davies's that James Boswell first met Dr. Johnson. Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.
Listing NGR: TQ3045180943
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425941
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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