ORSETT HOUSE

ORSETT HOUSE, 1, ORSETT TERRACE W2

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1225675
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: ORSETT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ORSETT HOUSE, 1, ORSETT TERRACE W2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1225675
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: ORSETT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ORSETT HOUSE, 1, ORSETT TERRACE W2

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:: ORSETT HOUSE, 1, ORSETT TERRACE W2

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 26148 81446

Details

TQ 2681 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ORSETT TERRACE, W2 51/3 (south side) 5.2.70 No 1 (Orsett House) GV II Detached villa. 1843-8. George Ledwell-Taylor. Stucco. Leaded mansard. Italiante style. 2 storeys, attic mansard and basement. 3 bays, centre one wider and slightly advanced with segmental pediment with thermal window. Rusticated quoins. Central entrance in tripartite columnar porch with waterleaf capitals and solid balustrade above. Panelled door. Square-headed architraved windows corniced to ground floor (blind). Some metal casements, some sashes; glazing bars. Dentil cornice above first floor, subsidiary cornice to attic. Return with 2-storey segmental bow window. Cast iron area railings.

Listing NGR: TQ2614881446

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Legacy System number:: 422149
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.