THE QUADRANT

THE QUADRANT, 83-89, REGENT STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265195
Date first listed:: 30-May-1972
List Entry Name:: THE QUADRANT
Statutory Address:: THE QUADRANT, 83-89, REGENT STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265195
Date first listed:: 30-May-1972
List Entry Name:: THE QUADRANT
Statutory Address 1:: THE QUADRANT, 83-89, REGENT STREET W1
Statutory Address 2:: THE QUADRANT, 89A, REGENT STREET W1
Statutory Address 3:: THE QUADRANT, 91-113, REGENT STREET W1

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 QUADRANT, 83-89, REGENT STREET W1
Statutory Address:: THE QUADRANT, 89A, REGENT STREET W1
Statutory Address:: THE QUADRANT, 91-113, REGENT STREET W1

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 29326 80644

Details

TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET, W1 70/119 (West side) 30.5.72 Nos. 83 to 89 (odd), 89A and 91 to 113 (odd) The Quadrant G.V. II Quadrant of offices and shops. Part of the south western half of Sir Reginald Blomfield's grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Quadrant, designed c.1910 taking Norman Shaw's neo-Baroque set piece of the Quadrant elevation of his Piccadilly Hotel (Piccadilly q.v.) as key and seale, completed 1920-23. Stone faced, slate roofs. Podium embracing ground floor and mezzanine, 3 storeys above and dormered steep mansard. The podium has boldly pulvinated rustication to its articulating piers, ashlar upper floors with windows in flat surrounds; rich modillion eaves cornice, continuous range of dormers in roof which has bronze ridge cresting; prominent banded and corniced chimney stone stacks. The penetration of Swallow Street is masked by a rusticated semicircular arched bridge with open, giant, 3 storey Doric columned loggia over, a la Somerset House. The Quadrant composition is terminated by a slightly advanced pavilion with concave pyramidal cupola roof, balancing similar features to eastern end, viz Nos. 49 to 63 odd, qv.

Listing NGR: TQ2932680644

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Legacy System number:: 425676
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.