26, BRUTON STREET W1
26, BRUTON STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1291163
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1983
- Statutory Address:
- 26, BRUTON STREET W1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1291163
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1983
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, BRUTON STREET W1
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 26, BRUTON 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 28819 80716
Details
TQ 2880 CITY OF WESTMINSTER BRUTON STREET W1 69/56 (north side)
25.5.83 No 26
GV II
Terrace house. Mid C18, with 1930s alterations by Gerald Lacoste for the courturier Norman Hartnell's showrooms. Painted brick, slate roof. Three windows wide. Ground floor has display window of 1934 framed in polished granite and similarly framed doorway to left with a pair of marble obelisks flanking. Upper floors have 1934 sashes revealed under flat gauged arches with bowed wrought iron balconettes of 1934. Stone cornice at third floor level, parapet with blocking course. Interior redecorated in 1934 on ground and first floors for Norman Hartnell by Gerald Lacoste but retaining C18 cut string staircase with carved tread ends and lyre and anthemion wrought iron balustrade. The ground floor showroom has been altered but the front door and door to hall are of chromed steel and glass with lobby fittings etc all by Lacoste together with the half landing decor of marble half-columns capped by urns flanking mirror glazed door and the first floor showroom completely mirror glazed with vanity tables, moulded glass chimney piece, original purpose designed light fittings etc. the glass specially produced by Pilkington's. 1934 rear wing fitting rooms also retaining original light fittings. One room in original part of rear wing retains mid C18 Rococo plasterwork to ceiling. The Lacoste interior are a rare survival. Thirties catalogue; Arts Council 1979 pp 101, 294. Architects Journal 1934.
Listing NGR: TQ2881980716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architects Journal in Architects Journal, (1934)
Arts Council of Great Britain Catalogue in The Thirties, (1979), 101,294
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