Piccadilly Hotel
1-5, AIR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1265754
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Piccadilly Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5, AIR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1265754
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Piccadilly Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5, AIR STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PICCADILLY HOTEL, 21-31 AND 31A, PICCADILLY
- Statutory Address 3:
- PICCADILLY HOTEL, 65-81, REGENT 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:
- 1-5, AIR STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PICCADILLY HOTEL, 21-31 AND 31A, PICCADILLY
- Statutory Address:
- PICCADILLY HOTEL, 65-81, REGENT 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 29414 80598
Details
TQ 2980 NW
70/76
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
PICCADILLY W1
PICCADILLY (north side)
nos. 21-31 and 31A (consecutive)
Piccadilly Hotel (including nos. 1-5 Air Street and nos. 65-81 Piccadilly Hotel Regent Street)
(Formerly listed as No. 21, The Piccadilly Hotel with nos. 28-31 consec. and 31A (including nos. 1-5 Air Street and 49 to 63 and 83 to 113 odd, Regent Street)
24.2.58
GV
II*
Hotel with ground-floor shops. 1905-08. R. Norman Shaw, architect for elevations; William Woodward and Walter Emden, architects for hotel interiors. Stone, slate roof Grand and bold (if incomplete) neo-Baroque design in Shaw's late manner. Fronts to Piccadilly and Regent Street Quadrant, flank to Piccadilly Place and Air Street. Eleven bays wide to Piccadilly. Heavily rusticated ground floor with large semicircular arcade as podium to rusticated first floor carrying giant two-storey open loggia terrace screened by Roman Ionic columns and finished off by
entablature with dentilled and bracketed cornice. The main block set back behind terrace, with side wings projecting towards street. The left-hand eight storey pavilion wing is surmounted by heavy, shaped and obelisk-finialed gable with aedicule and was supposed to be balanced by a similar pavilion to right, but the symmetry was pre-empted by the retention of Nos. 19 and 20.
The Regent Street Quadrant elevation is nine bays wide following curve; the arcaded podium with alternating rock-faced bands of rustication supporting a giant order of coupled Roman Ionic columns in antis with partly blocked shafts and screening three storeys high between rusticated pavilion bays, with elaborately enriched, carved garland surrounds to large third floor oculi; deep entablature and pedimented dormers to attics; lofty, banded stone chimney stacks.
The Quadrant elevation was part of a general scheme for rebuilding the Regent Street Quadrant, later extended in amended form by Sir Reginald Blomfield and others.
Sources: Andrew Saint,R. Norman Shaw, 1976.
Listing NGR: TQ2941480598
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424084
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976)
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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