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Latitude: 51.5123 / 51°30'44"N
Longitude: -0.1236 / 0°7'24"W
OS Eastings: 530305
OS Northings: 180929
OS Grid: TQ303809
Mapcode National: GBR JD.D2
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.T801
Plus Code: 9C3XGV6G+WH
Entry Name: The Piazza, Bedford Chambers
Listing Date: 24 February 1958
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1066948
English Heritage Legacy ID: 209333
Also known as: Apple Store, Covent Garden
Apple Store, London
ID on this website: 101066948
Location: Strand, Westminster, London, WC2E
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 Paul Covent Garden
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Shop
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER COVENT GARDEN, WC2
72/10
Nos 1 to 8 The Piazza,
24.2.58 Bedford Chambers
(including No 33 James
Street)
G.V.
II
Terraced houses with arcade. 1877-79 by Henry Clutton; rebuilding on a
larger scale and with modified detail of Inigo Jones's original north west
"piazza" block. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof. The arcading
faithful to the Jones-Isaac de Caus original but the upper floor and
pilasters modified with attic storey added. 4 storeys plus dormers.
Regular 8 window wide front with James Street return in rythm 1:3:1.
Ground floor proper set back behind rusticated stone arcade (the "piazzas")
carrying the facade, the arcade vaulted and shop fronts surmounted by
mezzanines within the arches, doorways architraved with console bracketed
cornices. 1st and 2nd floors have stone architraved sashes separated by
rhythm of the channelled stone pilasters; attic storey windows in stone
panelled strip frames. String course with plinth at 1st floor level over
arcade; projecting bracketed main cornice over 2nd floor and frieze and
cornice to attic. Oeil-de-boeuf dormers. James Street return generally
similar but with centre piece of 3 Gibbs surround doorways surmounted by
mezzanine windows below 1st floor balcony; outer bays with big arched
entrances, that on left the return end of arcade to Covent Garden. This
Clutton block is the sole if remodelled reminder of the original "piazzas"
of Jones's 1631 square.
Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.
Covent Garden Market; Robert Thorne.
Listing NGR: TQ3030580929
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