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Basement Vaults at No.8 Balderton Street, London W1: Standing building survey |
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Museum of London Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
A standing building survey was carried out at Nos 13 and 14 George Street (later renamed Balderton Street), were built around 1730. No 14, to the south, is documented as occupied by the Grosvenor Brewery from at least 1795. The northern vault, on the site of No 13 to the north, may have been constructed soon after the house there was demolished to make way for a ground-level passage, running directly over the vault. Two openings groined into the south wall of the northern vault suggest that this and the parallel southern vault were originally connected and both belonged to the brewery, which later also occupied Nos 15 and 16 further to the south (where an archaeological evaluation has found evidence for similar vaulted cellars). The brewery continued in operation probably no later than c 1870. Although the buildings on the site were demolished to ground level in about 1907 it was not until 1925-26 that the next building was constructed one of the first purpose-built public garages in London (architects, Wimperis and Simpson). The new building incorporated the northern vault, in which oil tanks are documented and a safe was built, but steps constructed down to it truncated the southern vault. Most wall surfaces were rendered with cement, but the position, size and shape of the vaults suggest that the half-vault may originally have formed a narrow, open basement area in front of two of the first houses on the site, and subsequently been covered over. |
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A Westman
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MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Please note: this record has been validated by-proxy by Historic England.
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Year of Publication: |
2012
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8 Balderton Street |
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CITY OF WESTMINSTER |
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Westminster |
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Greater London |
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England |
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Balderton Street London |
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Balderton Street |
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George Street |
Grid Reference: 528316, 180951 (Easting, Northing)
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Unpublished Client Report
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28 Nov 2016 |