Description

TQ 3080 NW and NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER TAVISTOCK STREET, 'WC2
72/ 35 ; 73/25 (south side)
15.1.73
No.22 (Charles H Fox Ltd and
Robert White and Sons) and
No 28 (Harper & Row Ltd)
(formerly listed as No's 26 and
28)
GV II
Corner block of offices. c1857 by G F Fry as the offices of the Strand District
Board of Works whose survey or was Fry. Stucco, slate roof. Italianate style. 3
storeys and cellars. 4 windows wide with single window bowed corner and
2-window return to Burleigh Street. Rusticated ground floor with corner
entrance approached by flight of steps (No 28) consisting of an archivolt
arched doorway flanked by engaged columns carrying entablature with enriched
panel above inscribed with the Strand Board's title. Entrance to No 26 to left
with archivolt arched doorway with console bracketed pediment and key mask.
Altered ground floor windows with mask keystones. Triplicate 1st floor windows
with cornices and semicircular arched 2nd floor windows with fruit-enriched
pendants to consoles carrying pediments over them,and enriched aprons; the
south bay of Burleigh Street return has windows of Venetian type. Both floors
are articulated by pilaster orders, Ionic over Doric; the crowning entablature
with blocking course. Prominent corner site.
Survey of London; Vol XXXVI

Listing NGR: TQ3051580885

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319208

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