Old Shades Public House
OLD SHADES PUBLIC HOUSE, 37 AND 39, WHITEHALL SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267004
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Old Shades Public House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SHADES PUBLIC HOUSE, 37 AND 39, WHITEHALL SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267004
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Old Shades Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SHADES PUBLIC HOUSE, 37 AND 39, WHITEHALL 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:
- OLD SHADES PUBLIC HOUSE, 37 AND 39, WHITEHALL 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 30093 80280
Details
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL SW1 83/55 (East side) 5.2.70 Old Shades Public House (Nos 37 and 39) GV II Public house. Dated 1898 by Treadwell and Martin. Stone faced, slate roof. Tall,narrow,shaped gabled frontage,in this partnership's distinctive Free Style late Flemish-Gothic style that follows the lead given by Wilson and Townsend. 4 storeys. 2 windows wide. Oak "half-timbered" public house front with carved spandrels and 4-centred arched doorway. Upper floors have paired, cross-mullioned, leaded casements and coupled 4 centred arch lights to 3rd floor; framed by sharply profiled mullion-piers terminating in slenden,sun- flower finials with serpentine cornices carried across, over cartouches above 3rd floor window heads; carved enrichment to aprons. Elaborate elongated shaped gable, with carved enrichment, the coping swept down and delicately scrolled on wall face flanking 3rd floor. Edwardian Architecture; Alistair Service.
Listing NGR: TQ3009380280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Service, A, Edwardian Architecture a Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890-1914, (1977)
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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