Latitude: 51.511 / 51°30'39"N
Longitude: -0.1226 / 0°7'21"W
OS Eastings: 530377
OS Northings: 180793
OS Grid: TQ303807
Mapcode National: GBR JD.MH
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.T8JZ
Plus Code: 9C3XGV6G+CX
Entry Name: 42 Maiden Lane
Listing Date: 1 December 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1239044
English Heritage Legacy ID: 416682
ID on this website: 101239044
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 Paul Covent Garden
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 19 March 2025 to amend the description and reformat the text to current standards.
TQ 3080 NW
72/72
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
MAIDEN LANE, WC2
No. 42
II
Commercial and works premises. Dated 1873 by S.J. Nicholl for Cox and Sons, church furniture and stained glass manufacturers. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof. High Victorian Gothic with "flamboyant" details but functionally designed for the buildings's purpose.
Four tall storeys and two tier attic. Two major bays wide, that to left a double bay. Entrance in single bay recessed up steps with ribbed "Tudor" surround and curved corners to lintel, decorated spandrels. The double bay on ground floor has a pair of large cast iron mullion and transom display windows. The first and second floor windows are vertically grouped in slightly recessed panels with three-light transomed pairs of casements to double bay and panelled and glazed former hoist doors to single bay above entrance all with curve cornered lintels and with the panels finished off and linked by stone flattened ogee drip moulds and carved stops and finials. Third floor windows set in toothed brick corbelled lintel panel. Arcaded corbelling to parapet with shed lights to attic workshops flanked by two storey gabled stone and brick dormers. Cast iron Gothic cresting rail over shed lights. Fine cast iron Gothic rainwater head inscribed with date.
There is a wall-mounted Grosvenor gas lantern to the Maiden Lane elevation with decorative scrollwork to the bracket.
Listing NGR: TQ3036980790
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 19 March 2025 to amend the description and reformat the text to current standards.
TQ 3080 NW
72/72
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
MAIDEN LANE, WC2
No. 42
II
Commercial and works premises. Dated 1873 by S.J. Nicholl for Cox and Sons, church furniture and stained glass manufacturers. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof. High Victorian Gothic with "flamboyant" details but functionally designed for the buildings's purpose.
Four tall storeys and two tier attic. Two major bays wide, that to left a double bay. Entrance in single bay recessed up steps with ribbed "Tudor" surround and curved corners to lintel, decorated spandrels. The double bay on ground floor has a pair of large cast iron mullion and transom display windows. The first and second floor windows are vertically grouped in slightly recessed panels with three-light transomed pairs of casements to double bay and panelled and glazed former hoist doors to single bay above entrance all with curve cornered lintels and with the panels finished off and linked by stone flattened ogee drip moulds and carved stops and finials. Third floor windows set in toothed brick corbelled lintel panel. Arcaded corbelling to parapet with shed lights to attic workshops flanked by two storey gabled stone and brick dormers. Cast iron Gothic cresting rail over shed lights. Fine cast iron Gothic rainwater head inscribed with date.
There is a wall-mounted Grosvenor gas lantern to the Maiden Lane elevation with decorative scrollwork to the bracket.
Listing NGR: TQ3036980790
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