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20, TAVISTOCK STREET (See details for further address information)

A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5116 / 51°30'41"N

Longitude: -0.1212 / 0°7'16"W

OS Eastings: 530474

OS Northings: 180855

OS Grid: TQ304808

Mapcode National: GBR JD.YB

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.V89K

Plus Code: 9C3XGV6H+JG

Entry Name: 20, TAVISTOCK STREET (See details for further address information)

Listing Date: 1 December 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1220346

English Heritage Legacy ID: 208936

ID on this website: 101220346

Location: Strand, Westminster, London, WC2R

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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Description


TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BURLEIGH STREET, WC2.

72/47 Nos. 11 and 13 Including No. 20, Tavistock Street.

G.V. II

Corner block of shops and chambers. c.1855-60 by Charles Gray. Patent cement render, slate roof. Quadrant corner design with eclectic richly modelled Italianate details. 4 storeys, 9 windows wide, arranged as shallow breaks of 3 and 2 windows flanking 4-window corner. Ground floor with architraved doors and windows, one to each unit and with shop front to No. 20 Tavistock Street, all framed by broad pilaster-piers with ornate floral caps below entablature with bracketed cornice. 1st and 2nd floors have sash windows, framed by pilaster strips with consoles to cornices, set in panels defined by channelled pilaster strips. Bracketed cornice with polychrome tile metopes to frieze over 2nd floor. Attic storey has eared architrave sashes separated by squat coupled pilasters supporting large, dentil-enriched consoles to deep, projecting crowning cornice and pierced-work parapet with capped dies.

Listing NGR: TQ3047480855

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