The Langham (British Broadcasting Corporation) London, England
Listed Building Data
The Langham (British Broadcasting Corporation) has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1227056
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 22 November 1973
- Name
- THE LANGHAM (BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- Location
- THE LANGHAM (BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION), LANGHAM PLACE W1THE LANGHAM (BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION), PORTLAND PLACE W1
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 28880 81498
- Easting
- 528879.5670
- Northing
- 181497.8760
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ 2881 NE and SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTLAND PLACE, Wl 45/135; ;56/151 (west side) 22.11.73 The Langham (BBC) G.V. II Former hotel now offices. c.1864-65 by Giles and Murray, built as the Langham Hotel. Stock brick with Portland stone dressings. Vast "grand" hotel of the 1860s hotel boom, designed in heavy Italianate style with some late Medieval details, French pavilion roofs and east wing with corner tower. 5 main storeys on basements and dormered attics. Symmetrical north front with 7-window wide centre flanked by 3-window pavilions. Central prostyle stone porch with arched openings flanked by pilasters carrying entablature and balustraded parapet. Recessed semicircular arched sashes linked by continuous carved impost bands; canted stone bay windows to ground and 1st floor of pavilions with arched sashes flanked by pilasters carrying entablature. The north east corner of east wing is carried up as square belvedere. East front to Langham Place has large central 2 storeyed bow window. Rusticated ground and 1st floors; stringcourses and heavy crowning cornice with attic windows in frieze below, alternating with carved panels of mythological animals, and balustraded parapet above. Segmental pedimented dormers in pavilion roofs. Lofty chimney stacks. This vast pile closes the south axis of Portland Place.
Listing NGR: TQ2887981513
