Quo Vadis Restaurant
QUO VADIS RESTAURANT, 26-28, DEAN STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1290584
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Quo Vadis Restaurant
- Statutory Address:
- QUO VADIS RESTAURANT, 26-28, DEAN STREET W1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1290584
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Quo Vadis Restaurant
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUO VADIS RESTAURANT, 26-28, DEAN STREET W1
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:
- QUO VADIS RESTAURANT, 26-28, DEAN 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 29676 81114
Details
TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER DEAN STREET, W1. 58/54 (East Side) Nos. 26 to 28 (consec.) 14.1.70 (Part of Quo Vadis Restaurant)
GV I
Terrace house. c.1734 by John Nolloth(?), carpenter, altered on ground floor early C20. Stock brick with red brick dressings, slate roofs. 4 storeys. Each front 3 windows wide. Ground floor altered for restaurant with large leaded windows inserted, revolving doors and fascia. Upper floors have very slightly recessed sashes in exposed box frames, some with glazing bars,others altered as casements, all under flat gauged red brick arches. Nos. 26 and 28 have brick aprons ornamented with guttae to 2nd floor windows. Stucco cornice below attic storey, parapet with coping. Interiors much altered but retain considerable amount of original panelling in part reset for restaurant adaptation. Karl Marx and his family lived at No. 28 from 1851 to 1856 (L.C.C. plaque) and listed Grade I for this reason.
Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.
Listing NGR: TQ2967681114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209450
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Anne Soho: Volumes 33 and 34 , Vol. 33, (1966)
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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