Alginate House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Professional chambers, apartments. 4 related planning applications.
Alginate House
- WRENN ID
- tall-pediment-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Professional chambers, apartments
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HENRIETTA STREET, WC2 72/82 15.1.73 No 22 (Including No 34 Bedford Street) Alginate House G.V. II Professional chambers and apartments. 1857-58 by Charles Gray. Stucco, concealed roof. Eclectic Florentine quattrocento palazzo design. 4 storeys and basement. Double fronted 3 windows wide but slightly narrower return. The ground and 1st floors as one tall podium bound at corners by massive channelled quoin piers, with central "Romanesque" shafted doorway under bracketed cornice hood, similar pilaster framed flanking windows with tympani, the cornice hoods as sills to 1st floor pilastered and cornice hooded windows. 2nd floor "Romanesque" arched pilastered windows widely spaced and on 3rd floor arcaded range of 9 windows, some blind, beneath very prominent bracketed and machicolated eaves cornice. Moulded 2nd floor sill course and band sill course to top floor. Similar but closer spaced treatment to return. Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.
Listing NGR: TQ3025080777
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