The Waldorf Hotel
THE WALDORF HOTEL, 11-43, ALDWYCH WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357167
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Waldorf Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE WALDORF HOTEL, 11-43, ALDWYCH WC2
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06513/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357167
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Waldorf Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WALDORF HOTEL, 11-43, ALDWYCH WC2
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:
- THE WALDORF HOTEL, 11-43, ALDWYCH 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 30619 80985
Details
TQ 3080 NE and 3081 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALDWYCH, WC2 60/19 ;73/4 (North side)
20.7.71 The Waldorf Hotel Nos 11 to 43 (odd)
G.V. II
Grand Hotel. 1907-08 by A.G.R. Mackenzie. Portland stone cladding early steel frame, slate roof. Ambitious Edwardian grand hotel design developing Phipps's French pavilion manner at the Carlton though not as markedly Parisian in its Gabriel inspired details as Mewes and Davis; part of the Aldwych-Kingsway development forming the centrepiece of symmetrical composition with the Strand and Aldwych Theatres q.v. 7 storeys including mezzanine and attic storey plus 2 tiers of dormers in steep mansard. The front following Aldwych curve 15 windows wide. Central and pavilion-wing entrances, with canopies, in plain, channelled ground floor - and - mezzanine podium. 3 main storeys above, with architraved windows, articulated by giant order of Ionic columns in antis between the 3-bay pavilion wings where pilasters are used for the giant order. The 5th floor reads as deep frieze with bar relief panels between the windows. Main entablature surmounted by stone urns, the attic storey set back between the pavilion wings which have 2 storeyed attics and square French domes. Lower tier of stone dormers pedimented, upper tier as lead framed oeil de boeuf. Lead dressings to ridges. Interior is one of the only Edwardian grand hotels to retain its central top-lit Palm Court; lavish "Adelphi" suite to north and restaurant to east with colonnades, circular "Charter" room at lower level - all in Dixhuitieme taste with trelliswork to Palm Court; cast plaster architectural mouldings and sculpture produced by such workshops as Messrs. George Jackson and Sons, etc.
Listing NGR: TQ3059880978
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208538
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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