Description

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER LONG ACRE, WC2
72/15
15.1.73 Nos, 12 to 14 consec.
(Stanford's) (Including
No. 27A Floral Street)

- II

Office-commercial premises. c.1900-01 by Herbert Read and Macdonald. Red
brick with stone dressings and stone faced ground and 1st floors. Eclectic
Flemish Renaissance style. 4 storeys and attic in crowning gable. 3
windows wide broad front. Ground floor has double shop front with central
entrance flanked by engaged Doric columns and enriched architrave display
windows, under entablature. Upper floor windows principally 4-light leaded
casements with enriched stone surrounds, mullions and transoms; the 1st and
2nd floors respectively with paired pilasters and quoins and with central
window bay projecting and finished off with semi-elliptical pediment with
reliefs in tympanum (globe flanked by putti with cartouche inscribed
"E.D. 1900"), enriched aprons inscribed "STANFORD" on 1st floor and with
Royal Coat of Arms to that of 2nd floor. Attic storey framed and crowned
by stone dressed Dutch gable. The block extends back to Floral Street
where there is a plain warehouse elevation.

Listing NGR: TQ3014080886

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080794

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)