50, GREEK STREET W1

50, GREEK STREET W1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1357053
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:
50, GREEK STREET W1
Statutory Address:
50, GREEK STREET W1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1357053
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:
50, GREEK STREET W1
Statutory Address 1:
50, GREEK 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
50, GREEK 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 29780 81115

Details

TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREEK STREET, WI 58/56 24.2.58 No. 50 GV II Terrace house. c.1736. Stained brick, stuccoed ground floor, slate roof. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide, though not as spacious as No 48 (qv). Entrance to left with mid C20 door recessed in original panelled reveal and doorcase of fluted Doric pilasters and entablature with triglyph frieze but missing its cornice. Recessed metal casements, with flat gauged arches to upper floors except for central 1st floor window which has semicircular head with stone imposts and key block. Plat band over ground floor and rendered, probably brick, cornice below parapet with coping. Flanking steps up to door is a section of original area railings with large urn finials. Interior : closet wing and rooms and stair compartment on the ground and 1st floors lined with boldly moulded panelling with dentil box cornices etc. Doric columns flank ground floor front room recess and fluted Doric pilasters in passage - hall; dog leg stairs with carved cut strings, turned balusters and column newels but with usual closed string from 1st floor landing etc. Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.

Listing NGR: TQ2978081115

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
209932
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Anne Soho: Volumes 33 and 34 , (1966), 33

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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