Aldine House
66, Chandos Place WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292126
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Aldine House
- Statutory Address:
- 66, Chandos Place WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292126
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Aldine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 66, Chandos Place WC2
- Statutory Address 2:
- Aldine House, 10-13, Bedford Street WC2
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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:
- 66, Chandos Place WC2
- Statutory Address:
- Aldine House, 10-13, Bedford 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 30243 80728
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 December 2022 to remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards.
TQ 3080 NW
72/102
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
BEDFORD STREET, WC2
Nos. 10 to 13 (consec) (Aldine House) (Including No. 66 Chandos Place)
30.6.78
G.V.
II
Offices and shop. c.1911 by E. Keynes Purchase. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Free Style Queen Anne. Four storeys and basement. Virtually symmetrical elevation with a pair of tripartite bays flanking a central bow on the upper floors, each three windows wide, one window entrance to right hand north end and oriel corner turret to south with three window return to Chandos Place. Ground floor is taken up by well detailed wooden Greek Doric shop front with segmental bowed windows, articulated by pilasters, with cherub masks, which also flank the panelled doors with patterned fanlights. The upper floors have recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches, the central windows on the tripartite bays and the bow with stone architraves, on the third floor these windows have archivolt arches in the tripartite bays whilst the one in bow is an oeil-de-boeuf with swags in apron below. Between the major bays the front is articulated by quasi pilasters supporting console bracketed cornice and above the central bow rises an attic crowned by a segmental pediment. The corner turret has a finialed cupola. Aldine House also has a front at No. 66 Chandos Place repeating design of end bays on Bedford Street.
Listing NGR: TQ3024380728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208620
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden in Survey of London, 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.
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