51 AND 53, LEXINGTON STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274886
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 51 AND 53, LEXINGTON STREET W1
Statutory Address:: 51 AND 53, LEXINGTON STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274886
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 51 AND 53, LEXINGTON STREET W1
Statutory Address 1:: 51 AND 53, LEXINGTON STREET W1

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:: 51 AND 53, LEXINGTON STREET W1

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 29404 81008

Details

TQ 2981 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER LEXINGTON STREET, W1 57/81 (west side)

Nos. 51 and 53 5.2.70 GV II

Terrace houses. 1719 with early C19 alterations. Black painted stock brick, concealed roof. 4 storeys. Each front 2 windows wide. Ground floors retain early C19 timber shop fronts flanked by panelled and glazed shop doors and 6 panel house doors with rectangular fanlights, the display window of No. 51 retaining original large panes with glazing bars, all framed by the slender pilasters carrying entablature-fascias. Upper floors have recessed C19 sashes in exposed frames under segmental red brick arches. No. 53 has stucco plat band to 1st floor; common parapet with coping.

Survey of London; Vol. XXXI.

Listing NGR: TQ2940481008

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Legacy System:: LBS

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'Survey of London' in The Parish of Westminster Part 2 North of Piccadilly: Volumes 31 and 32 , , Vol. 31, (1963)

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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.