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Latitude: 51.5119 / 51°30'42"N
Longitude: -0.1228 / 0°7'22"W
OS Eastings: 530360
OS Northings: 180894
OS Grid: TQ303808
Mapcode National: GBR JD.L5
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.T8F9
Plus Code: 9C3XGV6G+QV
Entry Name: Covent Garden Market Building
Listing Date: 24 February 1958
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1066949
English Heritage Legacy ID: 209337
ID on this website: 101066949
Location: Strand, Westminster, London, WC2E
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 Paul Covent Garden
Church of England Diocese: London
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TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER COVENT GARDEN, WC2.
72/11
Covent Garden market
24.2.58 building
G.V. II*
Former covered market buildings. 1828-30 by Charles Fowler. Granite,
stock brick and stucco, slate and glass roofs. Triple ranges in a
neo-classical composition. North and south elevations have 12 bay granite
monolith Doric colonnades flanking central 2 storey, pedimented Venetian
entrances, the ranges terminating in square 2 storey lodge pavilions with
pyramidal chimney-finialed lead roofs. The east end has a 4-deep Doric
column portico with balustraded terrace and a pediment gable decked with
urns and a sculptural group marking The Central Avenue: an arcade of
restored shops with mezzanine windows set in arcade, with 5 attic storey
lights, above each bay, set behind dwarf Doric columns, glazed roof on
kingpost trusses. The former open market spaces between the ranges were
roofed in 1874-75 and 1888-89 by Cubitt's with iron columns linked by
skeleton arches supporting semicircular trusses of glazed and slated roof
with open clerestory. The west front of the Central Avenue has a 5-bay
colonnade carrying 7 window wide 1st floor with entablature arched over
centre framed by pediment gable; 5-bay colonnades flank the inner faces of
the outer ranges at the west end balancing the centre feature. The whole
of the complex has been restored by the GLC.
Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.
Covent Garden Market; Robert Thorne.
Listing NGR: TQ3036080894
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