ST PETER'S HOSPITAL

ST PETER'S HOSPITAL, 25-29, HENRIETTA STREET WC2

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278382
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: ST PETER'S HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: ST PETER'S HOSPITAL, 25-29, HENRIETTA STREET WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278382
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: ST PETER'S HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: ST PETER'S HOSPITAL, 25-29, HENRIETTA 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:: ST PETER'S HOSPITAL, 25-29, HENRIETTA 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 30281 80798

Details

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HENRIETTA STREET, WC2 72/55 15.1.73 Nos. 25 to 29 (consec.) St. Peter's Hospital G.V. II Hospital. 1880-82 by J.M. Brydon with amendments imposed by the Bedford Estate's architect Henry Clutton. Red brick with rubbed and carved brick trim and Portland stone dressings, tiled roof. Queen Anne style in the Shaw manner. 5 storeys. Symmetrical 11 window wide front with narrow central and end pavilions, the latter as towers. Ground floor has main entrance in central pavilion with block dressed archivolt arched doorway framed by Doric columns with blocked shafts and flanked by cartouches. Shavian window patterns with mullioned and transomed glazing bar sashes, tripartite arched centre light transomed windows and oriels to 1st and 2nd floor above entrance. Pilasters order 1st and 2nd floors of wings framing pairs of bays, rising from ground floor cornice and supporting main entablature over 2nd floor; attic storey with secondary order and modillion crowning cornice, large dormers in steep roof. The central pavilion is finished off with a pedimented Dutch gable and the roof behind crowned by a weathervaned cupola. The end pavilions finished off with ogee capped turrets. Plain front to St. Paul's Churchyard with similar pattern of fenestration. As designed the ground floor had shops, incorporated in hospital in 1930 remodelling of interior. Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.

Listing NGR: TQ3028180798

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Legacy System number:: 210151
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.