93, MORTIMER STREET, 43, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1

43, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267276
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: 93, MORTIMER STREET, 43, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
Statutory Address:: 43, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267276
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: 93, MORTIMER STREET, 43, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
Statutory Address 1:: 43, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
Statutory Address 2:: 93, MORTIMER 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:: 43, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1
Statutory Address:: 93, MORTIMER 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 29017 81467

Details

TQ 2981 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MORTIMER STREET (north side)

57/8 No. 93, including No 43 Great 14.10.85 Portland Street)

II

Office block. C1906-10 by W. and E. Hunt. Portland stone faced, slate roof. Bold neo-Grec design of early date for this style. 4 storeys, with ground floor and 1st floor cum mezzanine as a podium, and basement. 5 bays wide. Arcaded rusticated podium has entrance in central bay treated as an Ionic columned aedicule- porch with pediment rising in front of mezzanine window in tympanum of arch; shop windows flanking, with fret-ornamented band at impost level and scrolls to key blocks of arcade. The architraved metal casements of upper floors are framed by the giant Ionic order which rises from the podium to a heavy dentilled entablature with wreaths over the columns and antae with acroteria faced stops above, moulded bandcourse to 2nd floor and enriched cornices to 2nd floor windows with open cartouche pediment to central window. No 43 Great Portland Street with stone facade of similar character but plainer.

Listing NGR: TQ2902181454

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Legacy System number:: 419238
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.