12, CAVENDISH PLACE W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209944
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: 12, CAVENDISH PLACE W1
Statutory Address:: 12, CAVENDISH PLACE W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209944
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: 12, CAVENDISH PLACE W1
Statutory Address 1:: 12, CAVENDISH PLACE W1

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 12, CAVENDISH PLACE W1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28863 81454

Details

TQ 2881 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CAVENDISH PLACE W1 56/40 No 12 9.1.70 - II

Town house. Mid C18. Terrace front to street but east garden front as well. Some early and mid C19 alterations. Brick with rusticated stucco ground floor. Three storeys, basement and slated mansard with dormers. Three windows. Enriched Victorian scroll plat band below second floor and stone cyma bracketed cornice below parapet. Stone architraves to windows, the first floor one, above C19 Corinthian columned porch to left, is a Palladian window enriched with extra ornament in mid C19. The east return to garden is of 5 + 1 windows, the centre advanced and pedimented, cornice and Victorian scroll as on street front. First floor of centrepiece has unaltered Ionic columned Palladian window. Ground floor stucco channelled and struck to window arches. Early C19 cast iron verandah with geometric pattern balustrade as first floor balcony. Rare case of side garden elevation surviving.

Listing NGR: TQ2886181460

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Legacy System number:: 209043
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.