Description

TQ 2880 NE
69/1

CITY OF WESTMINSTER
ALBEMARLE STREET, W1
No 23 (including Nos 16a,16b, 16c Grafton Street)

GV
II

Purpose built shops and chambers. Dated 1896. Hard red brick and terracotta.
Jacobean with some Art Nouveau Renaissance detailing. Prominent 5 storey corner
block. 5 windows to Albemarle Street, corner turret and 5 windows to Grafton
Street. Arched ground floor treatment for shops, their windows projecting in part
as rectangular bays with glazed half "barrel vaults". Two 3-storey segmental and
canted oriel bays to Albemarle Street, the corner turret corbelled with lead dome.
Similar oriels to Grafton Street but one of 2 storeys only. Shallow relief Art
Nouveau terracotta panel over Albemarle Street doorway. Corner turret columns
have more conventional Renaissance decoration on shafts.

Listing NGR: TQ2898180657

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319450

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014