45 and 46, Albemarle Street London, England
Listed Building Data
45 and 46, Albemarle Street 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1248510
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 23 April 1991
- Name
- 45 AND 46, ALBEMARLE STREET
- Location
- 45 AND 46, ALBEMARLE STREET
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 29087 80453
- Easting
- 529087.0000
- Northing
- 180453.0000
Listed Building Description
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TQ 2980 SW Albemarle Street (west side)
81/152 Nos 45 and 46
GV II
Pair of offices with ground-floor shops. 1955-57 by Erno Goldfinger. Reinforced concrete frame with projecting steel- framed oriels, clad in portland stone vitrolite. Six storeys. 4 Bays wide on rectangular site. Frame expressed on main elevation, noted for its set-back and projecting planes. High cornice over recessed eaves. Each window is of three vertical planes with set- back toplights, over vitrolite panels. Central bays on second and fourth floors project on steel girders without toplights and glazed returns. Offices reached via recessed entrances at either side of building with shopfronts between, that to No.45 altered. Goldfinger also designed the shopfittings for No.46 and its firescreen survives. Recognised as Goldfinger's most important office building, it is the first building in mature style that he was to develop further in his later housing for the London County Council.
Sources: Architectural Review, January 1956 Architects Journal, 18 July 1957 Architectural Design, January 1958 Architectural Review, February 1958 James Dunnett and Gavin Stamp, Erno Goldfinger, 1983
Listing NGR: TQ2908780453
