Description

TQ 2881 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER STRATFORD PLACE W1
56/80
Porter's Lodge in front
10.9.54 of No 1
GV II
Former porter's lodge to Stratford Place. 1774 by Richard Edwin. Yellow stock brick
and stone dressings. One storey and one bay, square on plan. Semicircular arched
doorway to west and blind similar arched windows to flanks. Stone plinth, stone plat
band above doorway and cornice and blocking course surmounted by couchant lion sculpted
in stone. Stone roundel between plat band and cornice above doorway inscribed with
incised seriff "Stratford Place". Plaque in similar position facing Oxford Street
carved in sharp but shallow relief with urn flanked by gryphons. Originally there was
a pair to this, lodge on the opposite side with gates between.

Listing NGR: TQ2853781135

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081593

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)