Latitude: 51.5121 / 51°30'43"N
Longitude: -0.1185 / 0°7'6"W
OS Eastings: 530658
OS Northings: 180923
OS Grid: TQ306809
Mapcode National: GBR KD.K3
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.W8P4
Plus Code: 9C3XGV6J+VH
Entry Name: Marconi House
Listing Date: 1 December 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1236757
English Heritage Legacy ID: 427850
Also known as: 335 Strand, London
ID on this website: 101236757
Location: Strand, Westminster, London, WC2B
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 Mary le Strand with St Clement Danes
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: House
TQ 3080 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER STRAND, WC2 73/21 Nos 336 and 337 (Marconi House) includes No 8 Aldwych, WC2 G.V. II Offices. 1902 - 03 by Norman Shaw with Runtz and Ford, the surviving part of the Gaiety Theatre development and originally the Gaiety Restaurant; attic storey of the 1950s. Portland stone, slate roofs. Restrained Shavian classicism. 6 storeys plus later attic. 9 windows wide with long cranked return to Montreal Place and 5 windows wide Aldwych front. Arcaded, rusticated ground floor with mid C20 glazing and doorways. Upper storeys, framed by rusticated quoins, with aediculed, alternating pediment windows to 1st floor but quite plain above, apart from 3rd floor sill course, until the 5th floor where the storey is treated as frieze with the windows inserted between sculptured panels of standing figures, below the modillion cornice. Similar details to Montreal Place, where part of the original dormered attic survives, and to Aldwych where the 1st floor aedicules are framed by Ionic columns. Early and influential phase of building in the Aldwych development. R. Norman Shaw; Andrew Saint
Listing NGR: TQ3066180929
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