40 AND 42, TAVISTOCK STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276087
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: 40 AND 42, TAVISTOCK STREET WC2
Statutory Address:: 40 AND 42, TAVISTOCK STREET WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276087
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: 40 AND 42, TAVISTOCK STREET WC2
Statutory Address 1:: 40 AND 42, TAVISTOCK STREET 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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Location

Statutory Address:: 40 AND 42, TAVISTOCK 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 30561 80935

Details

TQ 3080 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER TAVISTOCK STREET, WC2 73/11 (south side) 15.1.73 Nos 40 and 42 G.V. II Pair of end of terrace houses with shops. c1830-40 rebuild or refacing. Stock brick, slate roof. 4 storeys and dormered mansard. Each front 2 windows wide with 3 window return to Catherine Street. Original wooden shop front with panelled and glazed door flanked by display windows and returned, with pilasters carrying entablature-fascia with projecting cornice. Upper floors have recessed glazing bar sashes in stucco architraves. 3rd floor stucco sill band and crowning stucco cornice and blocking course. Survey of London; Vol XXXVI

Listing NGR: TQ3056180934

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Legacy System number:: 207242
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Survey of London' in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, , Vol. 36, (1970)

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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.