Latitude: 51.512 / 51°30'43"N
Longitude: -0.126 / 0°7'33"W
OS Eastings: 530137
OS Northings: 180897
OS Grid: TQ301808
Mapcode National: GBR HD.V4
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.R8Q7
Plus Code: 9C3XGV6F+RH
Entry Name: Stanford's
Listing Date: 15 January 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1222308
English Heritage Legacy ID: 414454
Also known as: 12-14 Long Acre and 27A Floral Street
ID on this website: 101222308
Location: Strand, Westminster, London, WC2E
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: St James's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Martin-in-the-Fields
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Commercial building Office building Retail building
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TQ 3080 NW
72/15
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
LONG ACRE, WC2
Nos, 12 to 14 consec. (Stanford's) (Including No. 27A Floral Street)
15.1.73
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.
Four storeys and attic in crowning gable. Three 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 four-light leaded casements with enriched stone surrounds, mullions and transoms; the first and second 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 first floor and with Royal Coat of Arms to that of second 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.
There is a wall-mounted Grosvenor gas lantern to the Rose Street elevation. The lantern has twin pilots, a four-mantle burner and a vitreous enamel reflector. The flat-plate bracket has a single 's' curl for decoration.
Listing NGR: TQ3014080886
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