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Latitude: 51.5169 / 51°31'0"N
Longitude: -0.1254 / 0°7'31"W
OS Eastings: 530167
OS Northings: 181438
OS Grid: TQ301814
Mapcode National: GBR JB.0F
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.S42H
Plus Code: 9C3XGV8F+PR
Entry Name: 43 and 45 New Oxford Street including 16 West Central Street
Listing Date: 11 January 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1113170
English Heritage Legacy ID: 477594
ID on this website: 101113170
Location: St Giles, Camden, London, WC1A
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Giles-in-the-Fields
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 May 2022 to correct address, remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards
TQ3181SW
798-1/105/1887
CAMDEN
NEW OXFORD STREET (South East side)
Nos.43 AND 45
GV
II
Includes: No.16 WEST CENTRAL STREET.
Terrace of shops and offices. 1843-7. Under the direction of James Pennethorne as Architect and Surveyor for Metropolitan Improvements appointed following a House of Commons Select Committee in 1836. Stuccoed brick with banded quoins and rustication, slate roofs. A group of commercial premises on a canted site treated as two distinct units. The premises survive well above C20 ground-floor shops, the upper floor having sash windows with small-paned glazing bars in moulded architrave surrounds, under heavy cornices and parapets, that to No.45 with balustrade. No.45 has arcaded first floor fenestration, which continues along return to West Central Street on ground floor also.
INTERIORS not inspected.
The group is the most prominent intact survival of Pennethorne's most important Metropolitan Improvements Commission for the Commons Select Committee.
Listing NGR: TQ3016781438
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