BURTONS HEADQUARTERS AND SHOP

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-Sep-1990
List Entry Name:: BURTONS HEADQUARTERS AND SHOP
Statutory Address:: BURTONS HEADQUARTERS AND SHOP, 118-132, NEW OXFORD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379031
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 478396
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.