62 AND 70, WARWICK STREET, 62 AND 70, KINGLY STREET W1, 156-170, REGENT STREET W1, 1-13, BEAK STREET

1-13, BEAK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265254
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:: 62 AND 70, WARWICK STREET, 62 AND 70, KINGLY STREET W1, 156-170, REGENT STREET W1, 1-13, BEAK STREET
Statutory Address:: 1-13, BEAK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265254
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:: 62 AND 70, WARWICK STREET, 62 AND 70, KINGLY STREET W1, 156-170, REGENT STREET W1, 1-13, BEAK STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 1-13, BEAK STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 156-170, REGENT STREET W1
Statutory Address 3:: 62 AND 70, KINGLY STREET W1
Statutory Address 4:: 62 AND 70, WARWICK STREET

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:: 1-13, BEAK STREET
Statutory Address:: 156-170, REGENT STREET W1
Statutory Address:: 62 AND 70, KINGLY STREET W1
Statutory Address:: 62 AND 70, WARWICK 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 29231 80879

Details

TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET Wl 70/94 (east side) 22-11-73 Nos 156 to 170 (even) (including Nos 1 to 13 (odd) Beak Street and 62 and 70 Warwick St.) GV II Block of offices and shops. Begun 1904, by Crickmay and Sons. Portland stone and slate roof, with red polished granite to ground and 1st floors. Baroque-classical. 4 storeys, attics and dormer in steep mansard. Symmetrical facade 11 windows wide with slightly advanced 3 window flanking bays and bowed and domed corners. Mid C20 shop fronts to ground floor. The ground and 1st floors to corner, end and central bays have semicircular arched recesses flanked by rusticated pilasters carrying entablature. The architraved sash windows of upper floors have cornices on 2nd floor and central segmental pediment. The 3 window end bays have giant pilasters with block dressings rising through lst and 2nd floors carrying entablature and segmental pediments with carved tympana; balustraded parapets with lion finials flanking. The bowed corners have engaged Ionic columns through 2nd and 3rd floors carrying continuous entablature; columns carry on through their 4th and 5th floors to copper domes with cornices, scrolled buttresses and enriched lunettes.

Listing NGR: TQ2923180879

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Legacy System number:: 425630
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.