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Latitude: 51.5103 / 51°30'36"N
Longitude: -0.1334 / 0°8'0"W
OS Eastings: 529632
OS Northings: 180689
OS Grid: TQ296806
Mapcode National: GBR GD.6S
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.M9VK
Plus Code: 9C3XGV68+4J
Entry Name: 18-20, Coventry Street WC2
Listing Date: 1 December 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1220705
English Heritage Legacy ID: 209340
ID on this website: 101220705
Location: Soho, Westminster, London, W1J
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 Anne Soho
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
TQ 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER COVENTRY STREET, WC2
72/117
Nos 18 to 20 (consec)
G.V. II
Former restaurant now part of Trocadero. 1892-94 by Treadwell and Martin,
built as (the fatuous) Scott's Restaurant and Oyster Bar; now completely altered
internally as part of the Trocadero complex. Painted Bath stone. Freely handled
"Early French Renaissance" with carved enrichments. Corner site with Great
Windmill Street. Gabled fronts, 5 windows wide to Great Windmill Street and
slightly asymmetrical 4-window wide Coventry Street front with turret to
corner. 4 storeys and attic in gables. Ground floor arcaded with stunted
columns of polished dark Labrador granite on plinths. The upper floors have
windows with quadrant corners to lintels articulated by slender through storey
shafts with broad, clustered half shafts flanking the central 3 bays with
gables rising above, pinnacled parapets. The corner has oriel turret with apron
panels elaborately enriched with scallop-shell carving. Enriched carved bands
between storeys. Prominent corner site.
Listing NGR: TQ2963280689
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