5 AND 6, HENRIETTA STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278431
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: 5 AND 6, HENRIETTA STREET WC2
Statutory Address:: 5 AND 6, HENRIETTA STREET WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278431
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: 5 AND 6, HENRIETTA STREET WC2
Statutory Address 1:: 5 AND 6, 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:: 5 AND 6, 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 30339 80810

Details

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HENRIETTA STREET, WC2 72/57 15.1.73 Nos. 5 and 6 G.V. II Pair of terrace houses. c.1730-31 refronted 1873 by W.G. Bartleet for the London and County Bank. Portland cement facing and dressings, slate roof. Italianate details. 4 storeys and cellars. Each of 3 windows wide. Channelled ground floor has square headed doorways, either end of paired fronts, with cornices on consoles, flanking 4 segmental headed recessed sash windows framed by rusticated pilasters and archivolt arches with keys. 1st floor segmental headed sashes in plain architraves rising from ground floor entablature have pediments on enriched consoles (segmental pediments to centre of each front), cornices on consoles to 2nd floor, similarly architraved sashes and eared architrave sashes with keys to 3rd floor. Sill bands and dentil crowning cornice flanked by consoles. Interiors considerably altered in 1870s but No. 5 retains original doorcases, enriched chimney pieces and cornices to 1st floor rooms. Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.

Listing NGR: TQ3034680797

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Legacy System number:: 210146
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.