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© Mr Anthony Rau
IoE Number:
422463
Location:
105-109 OXFORD STREET W1 (south side)
WESTMINSTER, CITY OF WESTMINSTER, GREATER LONDON
Photographer:
Mr Anthony Rau
Date Photographed:
04 December 2005
Date listed:
01 May 1986
Date of last amendment:
01 May 1986
Grade
II
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TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER OXFORD STREET W1
(south side)
58/3 Nos. 105 to 109 (odd)
(including Nos.16 to
1.5.86 18 Hollen Street)
II
Built as a shop, factory and offices, now shop and offices. 1887-88 by
Christopher and White for the hatter Henry Heath. Oxford Street front faced
inbeige terracotta, slate roof. A free Franco-Flemish Renaissance style. 5
storeys and attic. Slight asymmetry with 4 window wide wings flanking a 2
window wide centrepiece. Mid C20 shop front across ground floor, its fascia
concealing a bas relief frieze representing the hat-making process, modelled
by Benjamin Creswick (a Ruskin protege). Upper floors have mullioned-
transomed casement windows in tiers, those in left wing grouped in 2 equal
bays by plaster strips, those in right wing similarly articulated but as 3
bays with 2 window centre. The centrepiece has sharply bowed 2nd floor oriels
and those above are paired in arches, their lunettes decorated with portrait
medallions of George IV and Queen Victoria; above the 3 narrow arched 4th
floor windows of centrepiece rises a scroll sided gable crowned by an incurved
pediment. The top tier windows of wings have arched heads and there is a
dormered gable over the right hand wing. The gables have decorated finials
in the form of beavers modelled by Creswick. Rear elevation to Hollen street
has a sober, well proportioned, industrial facade of stock brick with red
brick dressings. 4 storeys, 6 windows wide. Central steel lintel led entrance.
Segmental arched industrial iron framed and glazing barred windows. Top 2
floors articulated as 3 pairs of bays by red pilasters. Stone eaves cornice.
2 stone bands between storeys inscribed "Henry Heath, Oxford Street" and "Eat
Factory".