London Transport Museum
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden, WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357360
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- London Transport Museum
- Statutory Address:
- London Transport Museum, Covent Garden, WC2
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/04260/16
- Rights:
- © M. Louise Taylor. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357360
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- London Transport Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- London Transport Museum, Covent Garden, WC2
- Statutory Address 2:
- London Transport Museum, Wellington Street, 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:
- London Transport Museum, Covent Garden, WC2
- Statutory Address:
- London Transport Museum, Wellington 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 30467 80913
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on 19 March 2025 to amend details in the description and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 3080 NW and NE
72/13 ;73/14
CITY OF WESTMINSTER WELLINGTON STREET, WC2
London Transport Museum
(Formerly listed as The Flower Market)
15.1.73
G.V.
II
Former market hall. 1871-72 by William Rogers of Cubitts with 1884-86 extensions to Tavistock Street and new west front. Red and white brick with stone and terracotta dressings, glass roofs. Italianate detailing. Tall single storey front to Wellington Street. three bays wide. Arcade of three large arches framing double doors in outer bays and window in centre. Each arch has glazed radiating fanlight and key block, the central window key block with letter "B" for Bedford beneath coronet. Modillion cornice and balustraded parapet. Interior structure of cast iron with glazed clerestories supporting slated roofs and skylights, planned in form of two lofty naves between three aisles. Short east nave returns to form transept crossing the west nave. The Italianate red brick, stone dressed. Tavistock Street front boldly expresses the main structure: the nave and aisle divisions are masked by pilasters between which are spaced semicircular arched openings, a pair of windows to each nave, a window to the west aisle and double doors with fanlights to the middle and east aisles. Above each nave bay is a pedimented attic with large lunette window. Similar feature ends the west transept on west front which is of the same design.
Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.
Covent Garden Market; Robert Thorne.
There are five wall-mounted Windsor lanterns to the Tavistock Court elevation of the building, the central one of which is a gas lantern. On the Tavistock Street elevation there are five electric Rochester lanterns suspended from the canopy, plus a gas-powered Railway lantern at the east end. This gas lantern is similar in design to the Rochester lanterns but is smaller in diameter and a rare survivor of its type.
Listing NGR: TQ3046780913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207544
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thorne, R, Covent Garden Market, ()
Survey of London in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, 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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