Description

SOHO SQUARE
TQ 2981 SE
CENTRAL TIMBER-
FRAMED ARBOUR/TOOL
SHED
1900/58/10001
GV II
Garden arbour/tool shed forming the centre piece of Soho Square c1925-
6, built by Messrs J. Strutt & Co, 27 Endell Street for the Charing
Cross Electricity Company as a disguise for an electricity sub-
station. Brick and breezeblock core with timber-framing of re-use
C17/18 floor beams having rendered infill panels; an old (pre C17?)
4-centred head to south door. Clay peg tiled conical roof with
upswept projecting eaves on shaped brackets & gabled dormers to north
& south elevations having shaped bargeboards. Tudorbethan style,
built to appear as an octagonal market cross building. 2 storeys, 8
windows. Overhanging 1st floor supported on round arched arcading
with carved spandrels. North & south elevations have double panelled
doors with 4-centred heads. 1st floor windows of 3 lights and gables
4 lights, all with carved timber trefoil heads.

Listing NGR: TQ2969881249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082257

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)