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Latitude: 51.5108 / 51°30'38"N
Longitude: -0.1232 / 0°7'23"W
OS Eastings: 530338
OS Northings: 180768
OS Grid: TQ303807
Mapcode National: GBR JD.HL
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.T974
Plus Code: 9C3XGV6G+8P
Entry Name: Rules Restaurant
Listing Date: 15 January 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1238981
English Heritage Legacy ID: 416681
ID on this website: 101238981
Location: Strand, Westminster, London, WC2E
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
Tagged with: Restaurant
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MAIDEN LANE, WC2
72/85
15,1.73 No. 35 (Rules
Restaurant)
II
Restaurant premises. 1873 by Alfred Cross for Benjamin Rule, fishmonger
and oyster bar proprietor. Yellow brick with painted stone. on stucco
dressings, concealed roof. Simplified Italianate detailing. 4 storeys. 3
windows wide. Ground floor stuccoed with shop front incorporating doorway
to right, framed by narrow pilasters with foliate caps and
entablature-fascia with ribbed console bracket stops. Upper floors have
recessed casements, those of 1st and 2nd floors leaded as if quarries,
under gauged segmental arches. The 2nd and 3rd floor windows have
prominent bracketed sills linked by band course. Prominent bracketed
cornice finishes off front. Interior retains much of its original
decoration and fittings with domical decorated roof light to ground floor
restaurant and decorative oak panelling to upper floor dining rooms, ornate
staircase etc. Many noteworthy patrons in its history in the political,
literary and theatrical spheres quite apart from the clandestine amorous
encounters of Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, with Lillie Langtry.
Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.
Listing NGR: TQ3033880768
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