156-162, OXFORD STREET W1
156-162, OXFORD STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357395
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 156-162, OXFORD STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 156-162, OXFORD STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357395
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 156-162, OXFORD STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 156-162, OXFORD 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.
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:
- 156-162, OXFORD 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 29276 81318
Details
TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER 0XFORD STREET W1 (north side) 57/19 Nos. 156 to 162 21.8.75 (even) - II* Office corner block. 1906-08 by Belcher and Joass. Early example of steel framed structure, faced with Pentelikon marble, slate roof. Expressive ree Mannerist use of classical detail elegantly accommodating maximal glazing advantages of steel frame. 5 storeys (including ground floor and mezzanine podium), attic storey and stone dormered mansard. 4 bays wide to each front and splayed corner. Tall Doric columns articulate ground floor and mezzanine and directly support square panelled pillars that, in turn, carry coupled columns on which rest wide elliptical arches; the whole framing tripartite glazing of upper floors with "applied" central architraved openings with Mannerist cornices and broken pediments set against marble faced aprons, finished off with 3rd floor lunettes. Projecting cornice below attic storey finished off with blocking course with stone dormer rising from the centre of each bay. To be compared with same architects'former Royal Insurance offices on comer of Piccadilly and St James's and Holden's 429 Strand. Edwardian Architecture and its Origins; Alistair Service. Architectural Design; Vol. 48, Nos 5-6, 1978.
Listing NGR: TQ2927881322
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422460
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Service, A, Edwardian Architecture and its Origins, (1975)
Architectural Design in Architectural Design, (1978)
Architectural Design in Architectural Design, (1978)
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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