6 AND 8, MERCER STREET WC2
6 AND 8, MERCER STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267672
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 6 AND 8, MERCER STREET WC2
- Statutory Address:
- 6 AND 8, MERCER STREET WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267672
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 6 AND 8, MERCER STREET WC2
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6 AND 8, MERCER STREET WC2
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:
- 6 AND 8, MERCER STREET WC2
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 30161 80996
Details
TQ 3080 NW and 3081 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MERCER STREET, WC2 59/23; 72/2 Nos. 6 and 8
G.V. II
Artisans' dwellings. c.1908, built by the Mercers' Company Estate. Ceramic red brick with rubbed red brick and stone dressings, slate roof. Free Style "Wrenaissance" with good detailing. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide with 2 storey semicircular arched through way to right. Central staircase doorway in stone Gibbs surround with lush consoles to scrolled open pediment framing cartouche-key. Flush framed segmental arched glazing bar sashes and, in left hand bay, a shallow through-storey canted bay recessed in splayed reveal opening with glazing bar sash lights. Above the entrance the partially open staircase rising into attic is made more of a feature than usual with enriched stone framed oeil-de-boeuf on 1st floor and the opening through 2nd floor and attic with rubbed brick dressings swelling into Tuscan reveal-columns. Stone frieze and bracketed cornice. Spear head area railings.
Listing NGR: TQ3017680999
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 418110
- 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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