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Latitude: 51.5086 / 51°30'31"N
Longitude: -0.1314 / 0°7'52"W
OS Eastings: 529777
OS Northings: 180509
OS Grid: TQ297805
Mapcode National: GBR GF.NC
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.NBXV
Plus Code: 9C3XGV59+CF
Entry Name: The Haymarket Theatre (Theatre Royal)
Listing Date: 14 January 1970
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1066641
English Heritage Legacy ID: 210132
Also known as: Haymarket Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal, Haymarket
Haymarket Theatre
ID on this website: 101066641
Location: Whitehall, Westminster, London, SW1Y
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: St James's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Martin-in-the-Fields
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Theatre Organisation Georgian architecture
TQ 2980 NE and SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HAYMARKET, SW1
71/98 ; 82/6
The Haymarket Theatre
14.1.70 (Theatre Royal)
(Including Nos. 18 and
19 Suffolk Street)
G.V. I
Theatre. Rebuilt 1820-21 by John Nash, contemporary with his Regent Street
and Suffolk Street development, and resited to close Charles II Street
vista. Stucco, slate roof. Augustan neo-classicism. 2 storeys and lofty
sheer attic storey. 7 window bays wide. Giant pedimented portico of 6
Corinthian columns built out over pavement with entrance doorway to each
flank with oculus above. The back wall of portico has 5 archivolt and key
arched doorways with 5 architraved sash windows to 1st floor. The
modillion bracket cornice of portico is returned across the flanks. The
tall sheer attic wall above portico is pierced by a row of radial glazed
oculi set in panel below frieze which with main cornice and blocking course
extends the width of the facade. Rear to Suffolk Street is stuccoed, 4
storeys, 5 windows wide; rusticated ground floor with central rusticated-
pilaster, corniced doorway ; 1st floor has arcaded windows (unique theatre
feature in that they give directly on to the backstage) with sunk panels
beneath sills; cornice below attic storey with elliptical windows between
sunk panel pilasters. Auditorium redesigned in elegant 'Louis XVI' style in 1904
by C Stanley Peach.
Survey of London; Vol. XX.
The Theatres of London; Mander and Mitche
Listing NGR: TQ2977780509
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