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Porter's Lodge in Front of Number 1

A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5145 / 51°30'52"N

Longitude: -0.149 / 0°8'56"W

OS Eastings: 528537

OS Northings: 181135

OS Grid: TQ285811

Mapcode National: GBR BC.Q8

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.C6L9

Plus Code: 9C3XGV72+RC

Entry Name: Porter's Lodge in Front of Number 1

Listing Date: 10 September 1954

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1237103

English Heritage Legacy ID: 428305

ID on this website: 101237103

Location: Marylebone, Westminster, London, W1C

County: London

District: City of Westminster

Electoral Ward/Division: Marylebone High Street

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

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description


TQ 2881 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER STRATFORD PLACE W1 56/80 Porter's Lodge in front 10.9.54 of No 1 GV II Former porter's lodge to Stratford Place. 1774 by Richard Edwin. Yellow stock brick and stone dressings. One storey and one bay, square on plan. Semicircular arched doorway to west and blind similar arched windows to flanks. Stone plinth, stone plat band above doorway and cornice and blocking course surmounted by couchant lion sculpted in stone. Stone roundel between plat band and cornice above doorway inscribed with incised seriff "Stratford Place". Plaque in similar position facing Oxford Street carved in sharp but shallow relief with urn flanked by gryphons. Originally there was a pair to this, lodge on the opposite side with gates between.

Listing NGR: TQ2853781135

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