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Latitude: 51.5138 / 51°30'49"N
Longitude: -0.1299 / 0°7'47"W
OS Eastings: 529866
OS Northings: 181093
OS Grid: TQ298810
Mapcode National: GBR HC.0H
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.P6PT
Plus Code: 9C3XGV7C+G3
Entry Name: 6, Old Compton Street
Listing Date: 2 February 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1247741
English Heritage Legacy ID: 429098
ID on this website: 101247741
Location: Soho, Westminster, London, W1D
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: St Anne Soho
Church of England Diocese: London
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OLD COMPTON STREET
TQ 2981 SE
58/105
No 6
II
GV
House, now restaurant with accommodation above. Late C17/early C18 with later
alterations. Rendered brick, tiled butterfly form roof, behind parapet. 3 1/2
storeys, 2 bays. Ground floor late C20 restaurant entrance front and
fascia. First and second floors, pair of casements beneath overlights in near
flush frames and with rendered Cills. Tall proportions of the windows may
reflect'the early window form. Plain rendered band at eaves height. Rear,
timber casement dormer. Interior: Above ground floor retains original plan
form with closet wing to rear. Staircase with moulded closed string, moulded
rail, columnar newels with square bases and knobs, the finials missing.
Balusters boarded in or removed, but visible features compare with staircases at
Nos 2 and 4 Old Compton Street and 101 Charing Cross Road. Deeply moulded box
cornicing, plain panelling to stairwell. Further panelling assumed to survive
beneath later cladding. Rare survival of early house representing earliest
phase of Soho's development (q.v.) Nos 2, 4 and 5 Old Compton Street and 101
Charing Cross Road.
Listing NGR: TQ2986681093
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