3-29 The Vale SW3

3-29, The Vale SW3

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031506
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: 3-29 The Vale SW3
Statutory Address:: 3-29, The Vale SW3

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031506
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: 3-29 The Vale SW3
Statutory Address 1:: 3-29, The Vale SW3

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 3-29, The Vale SW3

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 26741 77888

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 March 2024 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 2677 NE 249/61/10061

THE VALE, SW3 (West side) Nos. 3-29 (Odd)

GV II

Row of 14 individually designed terraced houses creating a cohesive streetscape. c1911-1913 by F E Williams. Silver-grey bricks with red brick dressings, except No.3 which is red brick with stone quoins. Red tiled roofs, most with dormers, all except No.3 with enriched, tall brick chimney stacks. Artists' houses in C18 style.

EXTERIOR: mostly three storeys, attics and basements. Most have gauged red brick flat arches to flush frame box sashes.

No.3: three sash windows with gauged brick flat arches. Timber doorcase with open pediment on columns with enriched dosserets. Recessed entrance with panelled door and fanlight.

Nos 5 & 7: form a symmetrical design of three sash windows each, the central window of each house, at piano nobile level with stone keystones and cast-iron balconies. Each entrance in outer bay with moulded doorcase having a shallow, console-bracketed hood and enriched lintel; panelled doors with overlights. Coved eaves cornice. Each with two hipped dormers.

Nos 9 & 11: form a symmetrical design. The recessed central bays of two sash windows each have a slightly projecting semi-basement with cast-iron railing; the single window outer bays, flanked by brick pilasters, project to the pavement and have timber doorcases of pilasters supporting bracketed hoods with moulded cornices and panelled doors with overlights. At second floor level each has a keyed oeil-de-boeuf with cobweb glazing. All the sashes have stone keystones and at first floor level on the recessed bays are separated by vertically set oeil-de-boeuf with cobweb glazing; between the central windows an oval stone plaque inscribed "FMW 1912". The massive chimney stacks to front and rear are joined by a brick arch. Williams built these houses for himself.

No.13: three windows, the central first floor sash with moulded stone surround, broken pediment set with a rectangular keystone and bracketed stone balcony with cast-iron railings. Segmental arched entrance with panelled porch to panelled door and overlight.

No.15: four sash windows, those at first floor level with gauged red brick keystones. Timber doorcase of moulded surround, lugged beneath the pulvinated cornice; panelled porch to panelled door. Two pedimented dormers flank a segmental pedimented dormer behind a brick blocking course and band.

Nos 17 & 21: form a symmetrical design with No 19. Both have recessed entrance bays, flanking No.19, with segmental-arched entrances with gauged brick keystones, panelled doors and fanlights. Each outer bay has a double-height canted bay window with Classical relief roundel to the first floor apron and two sashes above in shallow brick pilastered recesses with gauged brick heads and keystones. No.21 has a C20 attic storey.

No.19: forms the centre of a symmetrical design with Nos 17 & 21. Five sash windows, the central window with segmental pedimented moulded stone surround and enriched keystone above a projecting portico with lugged, moulded stone doorcase with enriched lintel to the panelled door. This is surmounted by an urn flambe set in the moulded stone cornice; returns have segmental-arched sashes set in shallow round-arched recesses. Two pedimented dormers flank a segmental pedimented dormer above a heavy modillion cornice.

No.23: one canted bay window at first floor level with panelled apron. Entrance to left with timber pilasters supporting a gauged brick flat arch with keystone and recessed part-glazed door. To right, a horizontally set four-light casement window. The dormer cornice continues along the mansard roof.

Nos 25 & 29: form a symmetrical design with No.27. Each has a recessed single window entrance bay, flanking No.27; timber doorcase with pilasters supporting a projecting cornice hood, panelled door. Main bays have, at first floor level, a canted bay window with panelled apron and flanked by shallow round-arched niches. Venetian type ground floor window flanked by brick pilasters. Second floor sash in a shallow brick pilastered recess with gauged brick head and keystone. Behind the blocking course, a tiled gable end with sash window.

No.27: forms the centre of a symmetrical design with Nos 25 & 29. A jettied two-storey wing projects towards the street, the brick ground floor with a four-light, horizontally set, casement window supporting a timber-framed and weatherboarded upper storey having a large Venetian window set in the gable end of a tiled roof with upswept eaves. Entrance portico on the right hand return with pilastered timber doorcase and panelled door; left hand return has similar window to front. First floor returns each with five rectangular windows in flat frames with cornices. The recessed main building has three-light casements to either side of the wing and a large chimney breast with slab stack behind, flanked by hipped dormers.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2674177888

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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.