43, Great Portland Street W1 London, England
Listed Building Data
43, Great Portland Street W1 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1267276
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 14 October 1985
- Name
- 43, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1 (See details for further address information)
- Location
- 43, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W193, MORTIMER STREET
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 29017 81467
- Easting
- 529017.1490
- Northing
- 181467.4790
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ 2981 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MORTIMER STREET (north side)
57/8 No. 93, including No 43 Great 14.10.85 Portland Street)
II
Office block. C1906-10 by W. and E. Hunt. Portland stone faced, slate roof. Bold neo-Grec design of early date for this style. 4 storeys, with ground floor and 1st floor cum mezzanine as a podium, and basement. 5 bays wide. Arcaded rusticated podium has entrance in central bay treated as an Ionic columned aedicule- porch with pediment rising in front of mezzanine window in tympanum of arch; shop windows flanking, with fret-ornamented band at impost level and scrolls to key blocks of arcade. The architraved metal casements of upper floors are framed by the giant Ionic order which rises from the podium to a heavy dentilled entablature with wreaths over the columns and antae with acroteria faced stops above, moulded bandcourse to 2nd floor and enriched cornices to 2nd floor windows with open cartouche pediment to central window. No 43 Great Portland Street with stone facade of similar character but plainer.
Listing NGR: TQ2902181454
