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Latitude: 51.5129 / 51°30'46"N
Longitude: -0.1257 / 0°7'32"W
OS Eastings: 530161
OS Northings: 180996
OS Grid: TQ301809
Mapcode National: GBR HC.YV
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.R7YK
Plus Code: 9C3XGV7F+5P
Entry Name: 6 and 8, Mercer Street WC2
Listing Date: 1 December 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1267672
English Heritage Legacy ID: 418110
ID on this website: 101267672
Location: Strand, Westminster, London, WC2H
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: Building
TQ 3080 NW and 3081 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MERCER STREET, WC2
59/23; 72/2
Nos. 6 and 8
G.V. II
Artisans' dwellings. c.1908, built by the Mercers' Company Estate. Ceramic
red brick with rubbed red brick and stone dressings, slate roof. Free
Style "Wrenaissance" with good detailing. 3 storeys, basement and dormered
mansard. 5 windows wide with 2 storey semicircular arched through way to
right. Central staircase doorway in stone Gibbs surround with lush
consoles to scrolled open pediment framing cartouche-key. Flush framed
segmental arched glazing bar sashes and, in left hand bay, a shallow
through-storey canted bay recessed in splayed reveal opening with glazing
bar sash lights. Above the entrance the partially open staircase rising
into attic is made more of a feature than usual with enriched stone
framed oeil-de-boeuf on 1st floor and the opening through 2nd floor and
attic with rubbed brick dressings swelling into Tuscan reveal-columns.
Stone frieze and bracketed cornice. Spear head area railings.
Listing NGR: TQ3017680999
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