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Latitude: 51.5177 / 51°31'3"N
Longitude: -0.1439 / 0°8'38"W
OS Eastings: 528880
OS Northings: 181498
OS Grid: TQ288814
Mapcode National: GBR CB.V3
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.G38V
Plus Code: 9C3XGV94+3C
Entry Name: The Langham Hilton
Listing Date: 22 November 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1227056
English Heritage Legacy ID: 424601
Also known as: Langham Hotel, London
The Langham (British Broadcasting Corporation)
The Langham London
ID on this website: 101227056
Location: Marylebone, Westminster, London, W1B
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: West End
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: All Souls Langham Place
Church of England Diocese: London
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TQ 2881 NE and SE
45/135; 56/151
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
PORTLAND PLACE (west side) Wl
No 1C (The Langham Hilton)
(Formerly listed as The Langham (BBC))
22.11.73
G.V.
II
Hotel once offices. c.1864-65 by Giles and Murray, built as the Langham Hotel. Stock brick with Portland stone dressings. Vast "grand" hotel of the 1860s hotel boom, designed in heavy Italianate style with some late Medieval details, French pavilion roofs and east wing with corner tower.
Five main storeys on basements and dormered attics. Symmetrical north front with seven-window wide centre flanked by three-window pavilions. Central prostyle stone porch with arched openings flanked by pilasters carrying entablature and balustraded parapet. Recessed semicircular arched sashes linked by continuous carved impost bands; canted stone bay windows to ground and first floor of pavilions with arched sashes flanked by pilasters carrying entablature. The north east corner of east wing is carried up as square belvedere. East front to Langham Place has large central two storeyed bow window. Rusticated ground and first floors; stringcourses and heavy crowning cornice with attic windows in frieze below, alternating with carved panels of mythological animals, and balustraded parapet above. Segmental pedimented dormers in pavilion roofs. Lofty chimney stacks. This vast pile closes the south axis of Portland Place.
Listing NGR: TQ2887981513
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