78 AND 79, LONG ACRE WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274717
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: 78 AND 79, LONG ACRE WC2
Statutory Address:: 78 AND 79, LONG ACRE WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274717
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: 78 AND 79, LONG ACRE WC2
Statutory Address 1:: 78 AND 79, LONG ACRE WC2

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 78 AND 79, LONG ACRE 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 30388 81180

Details

TQ 3081 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER LONG ACRE, WC2 59/2 15.1.73 Nos 78 and 79

G.V. II

Terrace houses with shops. c1840, a Mercers Company Estate development. Stock brick, slate roof. Bowed corner treatment to No 78, which was originally 2 houses. 3 storeys and dormered mansard. 3 window wide fronts. Ground floor shop fronts have altered display windows and shop doors but retain their stucco framing pilasters with console brackets flanking fascias and dentil cornices. Upper floors have recessed glazing bar sashes, those on 1st floor with stucco archivolt arches linked by impost band, those on 2nd floor with flat gauged arches. Plain stucco plat band beneath parapet with coping. Stone plaque at 1st floor with Mercers Company's badge and inscription. Lead rainwater head and downpipe to corner return. Group value on corner site with Drury Lane.

Listing NGR: TQ3038881181

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Legacy System number:: 414461
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.