147, OXFORD STREET
147, OXFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393501
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-2009
- List Entry Name:
- 147, OXFORD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 147, OXFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393501
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-2009
- List Entry Name:
- 147, OXFORD STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 147, OXFORD STREET
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:
- 147, OXFORD STREET
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 29368 81284
Reasons for Designation
No. 147 Oxford Street has been designated for the following principal reasons: * Of special architectural interest as a remarkably ornate late-C19 small-scale commercial building in the neo-Jacobean/Flemish Renaissance style, with lavish carved stonework; * Internal features including the stair contribute to its special interest.
Details
WESTMINSTER
1900/1/10465 OXFORD STREET 27-OCT-09 (South side) 147
II Shop with offices above. Built 1897 to the design of Gordon, Lowther and Gunton. Late C20 shop front.
PLAN: 4 storeys plus basement and gable attic. Ground floor shop with separate entrance to upper floors on left hand side. Rear stair. Pair of rooms to front and one to the rear, somewhat altered by removal of partitions or subdivision.
EXTERIOR: Portland stone and gauged red brick façade, remainder in stock brick. 2 bays wide. Opulent façade in eclectic neo-Jacobean/Flemish Renaissance style with lavish relief carving incorporating strapwork, masks, scrolls, foliage etc. Ground floor shop front modern, but it is possible that the original black granite surround survives beneath modern cladding. First floor is framed with tapering strapwork pilasters and has a pair of tripartite round-arched French windows recessed behind elliptical drop-keyed arches carried on bulbous foliated piers. Each has an elliptical balconette. Second and third floors are quoined and have paired oriels with elaborate corbels beneath. Oriels separated by a central niche; that to second floor shell-headed carrying a conical-headed vase on a scrolled console; that to the third an urn. Mullioned and transomed windows. Carved frieze between second and third floors. Above is an elaborate scrolled Flemish gable surmounted by a miniature broken pediment and finial. Gable has central window with strapwork crest and curved balconette with scrolled openwork balustrade. Metal-framed windows; glazing replaced. Timber sashes to rear.
INTERIOR: Shop premises much altered and has no visible features of interest. Cantilevered stair has cast-iron balustrade with timber handrail terminating in scroll. Timber glazed lantern above. Upper floor rooms altered but retain some contemporary chimneypieces and plaster cornices.
HISTORY: No. 147 Oxford Street was built in 1897 for John Robbins, chemist. It occupied the site of two late Georgian terraced houses. From 1898-1903 it was occupied by the Wholesale Co-operative Wine Association; from 1904 Rashleigh, Phipps and Co retailers of electrical fittings and subsequently a whole range of retail uses.
REASON FOR DESIGNATION: No. 147 Oxford Street is designated for the following principal reasons: * Of special architectural interest as a remarkably ornate late C19 small-scale commercial building in the neo-Jacobean/Flemish Renaissance style, with lavish carved stonework; * While the principal interest lies in the front elevation, internal features including the stair contribute to its special interest.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 504679
- 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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