Burtons Headquarters and Shop
BURTONS HEADQUARTERS AND SHOP, 118-132, NEW OXFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379031
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Burtons Headquarters and Shop
- Statutory Address:
- BURTONS HEADQUARTERS AND SHOP, 118-132, NEW OXFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379031
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Burtons Headquarters and Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURTONS HEADQUARTERS AND SHOP, 118-132, NEW OXFORD STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- BURTONS HEADQUARTERS AND SHOP, 279, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
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:
- BURTONS HEADQUARTERS AND SHOP, 118-132, NEW OXFORD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- BURTONS HEADQUARTERS AND SHOP, 279, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29857 81402
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2981SE NEW OXFORD STREET
798-1/104/1642 Nos.118-132 (Even)
11/09/90 Burton's Headquarters and Shop
GV II
See under: No.279 Burton's Headquarters and Shop TOTTENHAM
COURT ROAD.
CAMDEN
TQ2981SE TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
798-1/104/1642 (East side)
11/09/90 No.279
Burton's Headquarters and Shop
GV II
Includes: Nos.118-132 Burton's Headquarters and Shop NEW
OXFORD STREET.
Headquarters office and shop. c1929-30. By Harry Wilson. For
Montague Burton. Stone faced steel frame.
EXTERIOR: 7 storeys on a corner site. 7 bays to main Oxford
Street facade, recessed canted angles 1 bay each, left hand
return to Tottenham Court Road 3 bays, right hand return 2
bays. Ground floor shop altered late C20. Mezzanine 1st floor
with margin glazed, tripartite metal framed windows in plain
rectangular recesses. Main facade with Greek detailing to 6
Corinthian pilasters rising from 1st to 3rd floor to support
an entablature with projecting cornice surmounted by
antefixae. Within this frame, metal framed tripartite windows
with spandrel panels to 2nd and 3rd floors. Outer bays with
narrow, vertically set windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors.
Attic storey has short, horizontally set windows above which a
stepped parapet with shaped, architraved, horizontally set
window surmounted by a winged cartouche. Tottenham Court Road
facade similar. Recessed angles with distyle-in-antis fluted
columns, otherwise similar with stepped back parapets. Right
hand return, plain recessed openings on 4 floors, tripartite
to left bay, paired to recessed left bay.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this store and offices was the flagship of an
organisation founded in 1914 which became the largest men's
clothing organisation in the world, offering quality clothes
at the cheapest possible prices. Burton was also a pioneer in
the field of industrial welfare in an exploitative industry.
Listing NGR: TQ2985781402
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478396
- 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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