26, KING STREET WC2
26, KING STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275193
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 26, KING STREET WC2
- Statutory Address:
- 26, KING STREET WC2
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275193
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 26, KING STREET WC2
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, KING 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:
- 26, KING 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 30186 80838
Details
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER KING STREET, WC2 72/39 15.1.73 No. 26 G.V. II Office block. 1860 rebuild by Arthur Allom with Mathew Digby Wyatt as consultant. Stucco, slate roof. Eclectic Italianate palazzo design. 4 storeys and basement. Wedge shape site, 9 windows wide aligned on Garrick Street, bowed corner and 3 window return to Rose Street and bowed corner with 1 window wide front to King Street. Channelled pier ground floor with central doorway and windows recessed in splayed reveals with segmental, mask keystoned arches, the doorway and flanking windows slightly advanced with the piers vermiculated and the ground floor entablature broken forward in turn on consoles with the dentil cornice raised in pediment over doorway. 1st floor sashes recessed in enriched concave reveals with triple keystones to flat arches. 2nd floor sashes in architrave surrounds with panelled keystones. 3rd floor has small semicircular arched windows separated by large moulded panels with concave corners. Plinth, rusticated block quoins, sill bands, band course, moulded frieze and prominent enriched crowning cornice. The smaller scaled single bay to King Street, beyond quoining, has rusticated round arched and keystoned doorway with pediment, archivolted and keyed 1st floor window, plain architraved and keyed 2nd floor sash and inscribed round arched 3rd floor window with key extending into frieze. Cast iron 1st floor window guards. Cast iron area railings finialed and with anthemion standards. Interior has hexagonal vestibule, out of which rises the main staircase, the domed ceiling opened at the crown by a circular 1st floor landing gallery. Survey of London; Vol.XXXVI.
Listing NGR: TQ3018280841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413128
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, Vol. 36, (1970)
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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