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Latitude: 51.5151 / 51°30'54"N
Longitude: -0.1311 / 0°7'52"W
OS Eastings: 529775
OS Northings: 181226
OS Grid: TQ297812
Mapcode National: GBR GC.Q2
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.P51W
Plus Code: 9C3XGV89+2G
Entry Name: 26, Soho Square W1
Listing Date: 24 February 1958
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1236302
English Heritage Legacy ID: 427257
ID on this website: 101236302
Location: Soho, Westminster, London, W1D
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: West End
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
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TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOHO SQUARE, W1
58/24
24.2.58 No. 26
GV II*
Terrace town house. 1788-89, probably to the owner Sir William Robinson's designs.
Stock brick, stucco ground floor, slate roof. 3 storeys and dormered mansard. 2
bays wide. Ground floor altered with 2 pairs of panelled and glazed c.1900 doors up
flight of steps. 1st floor has large single Venetian window inscribed in
semicircular arched reveal with stuccoed tympanum, the tripartite window framed by an
Ionic order of pilasters and columns with entablatures and central archivolt, blind
balustrade between dies below sill. 2nd floor with recessed sashes (later C19
glazing) under flat gauged arches. Painted stone cornice and parapet with coping,
1st floor sill band. Window guards to 2nd floor. Extensive interiors (as the site
extends south behind No. 1 Greek Street) retaining a number of good original
features, despite alterations, including Ionic colonnade screen to large top lit
stair compartment with stone staircase rising to 1st floor cantilevered gallery with
scrollwork wrought iron balusters of great delicacy, lion mask decorated band at 2nd
floor level, bracketed cornice below ceiling cove with guilloche surround to large
roof light; richly modelled cornices and numerous carved and pedimented doorcases
and good joinery including doors veneered in mahogany by Thomas Chippendale, built-in
bookcase etc.
Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.
Listing NGR: TQ2977581226
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