1, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
1, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393506
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-2009
- List Entry Name:
- 1, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 1, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393506
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-2009
- List Entry Name:
- 1, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, 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:
- 1, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
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 29786 81418
Reasons for Designation
No. 1 Tottenham Court Road has been designated for the following principal reasons: * of special architectural interest as a striking and distinctive example of late C19 commercial architecture, and particularly of the type of small-scale retail/office buildings that appeared in London's West End at the turn of the C19/C20; * it is of strong townscape interest and groups well with the diverse listed buildings in the vicinity.
Details
1900/1/10411 TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD 27-OCT-09 (West side) 1
II Shop with offices above. Built c1893 to the design of Wigg, Oliver and Hudson.
MATERIALS: Faced in red rubbed brick with red sandstone dressings. Rear in stock brick.
PLAN: Comprised a pair of ground floor shops, now a single shop unit, with separate entrance to right; 2 rooms to front and single room to rear; rear stair plus 3-storey rear extension.
EXTERIOR: Eclectic Flemish Renaissance style. 4 storeys and gabled attic. Symmetrical façade of 2 bays. First, second and third storey windows are set within bold round-headed keyed arches with foliated capitals. First and second-floor windows are recessed, three-window canted bays with colonnettes to angles and a moulded cornice; the colonnettes are twisted where they continue between the floors. Casement windows with 3-light transoms. Recessed balconies to third floor have wrought-iron balustrades. Tripartite stone-mullioned window behind with segmental bracketed pediment to taller central light. Heavy moulded cornice breaks forward at centre to form bulbous corbel to oriel in gable above. Elaborate shaped gable terminating in scrolls flanked by finials; canted oriel with three round-headed windows flanked by a single window, fluted pilasters; moulded cornice and parapet coping; instead of pediment there is a cast-iron cupola with a brass dome.
Shop front has original corbels decorated with masks and foliage but is otherwise modern and not of special interest. To right-hand side is a decorative iron bracket for a hanging sign.
INTERIOR: Interior modernised and of limited interest, but retains original stair with turned balusters.
HISTORY: In the late C19 the corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road comprised a cluster of buildings including a pub called the Flying Horse, bisected by a narrow lane called Boziers Court. The site was redeveloped in 1892-3 in association with the widening of the Tottenham Court Road. No. 1 Tottenham Court Road was built c1893 to the design of Wigg, Oliver and Hudson of Bedford Row. The ground floor originally had a pair of shops with bow windows; in 1904 the left-hand unit was Malzy's Fish Restaurant and the right-hand Beedle and Co Tobacconists.
REASON FOR DESIGNATION: No. 1 Tottenham Court Road is listed for the following principal reasons:
* of special architectural interest as a striking and distinctive example of late C19 commercial architecture, and particularly of the type of small-scale retail/office buildings that appeared in London's West End at the turn of the C19/C20; * it is of strong townscape interest and groups well with the diverse listed buildings in the vicinity.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 504787
- 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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