233 Shaftesbury Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1989. Office block. 8 related planning applications.
233 Shaftesbury Avenue
- WRENN ID
- nether-spire-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1989
- Type
- Office block
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 April 2022 to update text and reformat to current standards
TQ3081SW 798-1/105/1427
CAMDEN SHAFTESBURY AVENUE (West side) No.233
13/02/89
II
Speculative office block, 1927-29. By Hobden & Porri; carved details possibly by Henry Poole. Steel-frame faced in Portland stone. Neo Egyptian style.
Six storeys; six-bay range. Bay to right has vertically set slit lights, grouped in threes, to full height stairwell; Pharoah's head carved above fluted coved cornice with winged disc (symbol of god Horus) over square-headed doorway with moulded architrave. To left is three-bay entrance front with cushion capitals to columns, set in slightly projecting portico with winged disc feature set in coved palm-leaf cornice; square-head glazed entrance. Upper floors have metal framed windows and metal spandrel panels, with palm-leaf and Classical detailing, recessed between a giant order of piers continued to flattened palm-leaf capitals set beneath plain frieze with central winged disc feature and attic storey with square-headed windows; palm-leaf carving to boldly projecting cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ3007681367
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