Harold Pinter Theatre
Harold Pinter Theatre, Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266093
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Harold Pinter Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- Harold Pinter Theatre, Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266093
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Harold Pinter Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- Harold Pinter Theatre, Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN
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:
- Harold Pinter Theatre, Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN
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 29757 80585
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 September 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 2980 NE
71/88
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
PANTON STREET, SWL (south side)
Harold Pinter Theatre
(Formerly listed as The Comedy Theatre)
28.6.72
II
Theatre on corner site. 1881 by Thomas Verity. Stucco (or painted stone) and painted brick. Slate roof. Eclectic classical front or rather frontispiece. Two storeys. Five windows wide. Ground floor has grouped doorways under 1950s cantilevered canopy. Deep frieze and moulded cornice above which is a centrepiece of three enriched architraved and corniced windows with blind oeil-de-boeuf over, articulated by pilasters supporting entablature and pediment, and flanked by lower single bay wings. Plain return to Oxendon Street.
Although vestibule foyer and bars etc. mainly 1911 and 1933 alterations (with some further changes in 1955), the auditorium is essentially that of 1881 with three tiers of horseshoe shaped balconies on slender iron columns, the two lower tiers continued as side slip boxes. A pair of (formerly two-tiered) boxes with slightly bowed fronts flank the stage at dress circle level contained within an arch framed by columns on brackets. Square, architraved proscenium; the main entablature with palmette enriched frieze carried out over the boxes and with the frieze continued around the gallery; above the entablature pendentives, with relief decoration in the lunettes, carry decorated domed ceiling with elaborate plasterwork to ventilator rose. Some of the original wood drum-and-shaft flying machinery survives above the stage grid.
Survey of London; Vol. XX.
The Theatres of London; Mander and Mitchenson.
Listing NGR: TQ2975780585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422997
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mander, , Mitchenson, , The Theatres of London, (1975)
Survey of London in Trafalgar Square and neighbourhood The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 3: Volume 20 , Vol. 20, (1979)
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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