Trafalgar Buildings
TRAFALGAR BUILDINGS, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266434
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Trafalgar Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- TRAFALGAR BUILDINGS, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266434
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Trafalgar Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRAFALGAR BUILDINGS, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE SW1
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:
- TRAFALGAR BUILDINGS, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE SW1
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 30091 80352
Details
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, SW1 83/38 (south side) Trafalgar Buildings G.V. II Offices; former grand hotel. 1881-82 by F and H Francis. Stone, slate roofs. Large "Second Empire" palatial hotel block with quadrant return to Whitehall. 5 storeys and dormered mansard with 2 Trench square dome pavilion-roofs. 9 bays wide continued by 5-bay quadrant corner. Ground floor has central archivolt arched entrance and altered shop fronts articulated by polished granite pilasters carrying entablature. Upper floors have architraved windows, as tripartite sashes to pavilions and to centre range on 1st and 2nd floors, with cornices. Bowed window to centre on 2nd floor. The 2nd and 3rd floors articulated by giant pilaster order supporting main entablature; attic storey with 3 architraved Diocletian windows in line with pavilion roofs and to corner; stone pedimented dormers linked by balustrade with full 2nd attic storeys of 3 windows, the central one pedimented, above which rise the square domes each pierced by oeil-de-boeuf. Prominent corner site in relation to Trafalgar Square. Northumberland Avenue was opened in 1876 and became a street of grand hotels in the 1880s.
Listing NGR: TQ3009180352
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421608
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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