Nos. 5-9, Short’s Gardens

Short’s Gardens / Nos. 1-25 (odd): Nos. 5-9, Short’s Gardens
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Designations

Listing
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Building of Merit
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Shopfront of Merit
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Appraisal

Nos. 5-9, Short’s Gardens

Nos. 5-9, with nos. 11-13, form one of two conjoined, four-bay, late-19th century warehouses, originally of four storeys with an added, late-19th century storey at fourth floor level. They are built in London Stock brick with pairs of segmental arched window openings in each bay at each of the upper floor levels.

The buildings were rehabilitated to the design of Levitt Bernstein Architects as part of the Neal’s Yard Development in 1983. The glazing of the upper storeys with undivided, stained timber horizontally tilting casements detracts from the appearance of the elevations and give them a somewhat lifeless look. Regrettably, the ground floor elevations of the buildings are plain rendered. Nos. 5-9 has a plain, modern shopfront of five bays at ground floor level with doors in the central bay.

Despite the unfortunate windows, the buildings are of particular architectural interest and considerable townscape value and contribute positively to the character and appearance of the Seven Dials Conservation Area.

The appearance would be considerably enhance by the replacement of the existing windows serving the upper floors with new, subdivided metal or timber framed windows with a painted finish, and by the introduction of improved shopfronts and signs.

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  1. 5-11 Short's Gardens
  2. Short's Gardens from Neal Street (1974). Courtesy London Metropolitan Archives.

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