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6-20, Sicilian Avenue

A Grade II Listed Building in Holborn and Covent Garden, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5186 / 51°31'6"N

Longitude: -0.1213 / 0°7'16"W

OS Eastings: 530447

OS Northings: 181636

OS Grid: TQ304816

Mapcode National: GBR J9.XS

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.V375

Plus Code: 9C3XGV9H+CF

Entry Name: 6-20, Sicilian Avenue

Listing Date: 14 May 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1378666

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478000

ID on this website: 101378666

Location: Bloomsbury, Camden, London, WC1B

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Bloomsbury Way St George

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description



CAMDEN

TQ3081NW SICILIAN AVENUE
798-1/100/1440 (North side)
14/05/74 Nos.6-20 (Even)

GV II

Shopping parade with offices, formerly flats, over. 1906-10.
By RJ Worley. For the Bedford Estate. Red brick with white
terracotta dressings and 1st floor.
5 storeys 11 window bays. Ground floor with later C20
shopfronts separated by Corinthian columns on plinths carrying
an entablature with plain terracotta frieze at 2nd floor
level. Pilasters at either end. 1st floor with 4 and 2-light
square-headed casement windows with mullions. 2nd, 3rd and 4th
floors with canted transom and mullion bay windows, flanked by
2-light transom and mullion windows and bowed oriel windows
rising from the 2nd floor. End bays with 2-light windows. All
windows with small leaded panes, some with shields. Projecting
modillion cornice surmounted by a balustrade. Tall slab
chimneys.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
Nos 6-20 (even) Sicilian Avenue form a homogeneous development
with Nos 1-29 (odd) Sicilian Avenue (qv), 15-23 (odd)
Southampton Row (qv), 25-35 (odd) & 35A Southampton Row (qv)
and 1-6 Vernon Place (qv).
(Harwood E & Saint A: Exploring England's Heritage, London:
-1991).

Listing NGR: TQ3045281648

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