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41 and 43, Wardour Street W1

A Grade II Listed Building in St James's, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5115 / 51°30'41"N

Longitude: -0.1324 / 0°7'56"W

OS Eastings: 529697

OS Northings: 180826

OS Grid: TQ296808

Mapcode National: GBR GD.FB

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.N8CM

Plus Code: 9C3XGV69+H2

Entry Name: 41 and 43, Wardour Street W1

Listing Date: 1 February 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1357341

English Heritage Legacy ID: 207451

ID on this website: 101357341

Location: Soho, Westminster, London, W1D

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 Anne Soho

Church of England Diocese: London

Tagged with: Restaurant Art Nouveau Art Nouveau architecture

Description


TQ 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER WARDOUR STREET, W1 71/55 1.2.74 Nos 41 and 43 G.V. II Commercial premises. 1904-05 by H. M. Wakeley. Red brick with elaborate green and buff stone dressings, slate roof. Free Style Jacobetban. 4 storeys and attic. 3 windows wide. Ground floor has elaborate central doorway with mask and consoles, the jambs with metal cartouches inscribed "Sarah Bernhardt laid the foundation stone of this building 1905"; shop windows to left and right with entablature-fascia above and flanking pilasters with garlanded caps and giant brackets bearing large urns. The outer windows on upper floors are treated as through storey canted bays with shaped dividers to casements, set back in full height recesses with segmental pediments broken by the balconettes on large cartouches of pedimented dormers behind. Bowed central arch to 1st floor with cartouches on dividing columns inscribed "Established 1833" and "Rebuilt 1904"; 3 segmental windows below shaped eaves cornice. G. L. C. plaque commemorating Willy Clarkson, theatrical wigmaker, 1861-1954. Survey of London. Vol XXXI.

Listing NGR: TQ2968880821

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