Bridgewater House
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 14, CLEVELAND ROW SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1066255
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Bridgewater House
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 14, CLEVELAND ROW SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1066255
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Bridgewater House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 14, CLEVELAND ROW SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, ST JAMES'S SW1
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 14, CLEVELAND ROW SW1
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, ST JAMES'S SW1
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 29203 80070
Details
TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CLEVELAND ROW SW1 81/22 No 14 (Bridgewater House) 24.2.58 - I
Vast town mansion. Final design 1845 by Sir Charles Barry, completed 1854 for Lord Ellesmere. Bath stone, slate roof. A massive palazzo design developing from the architect's Reform Club. 3 storeys and basement to mansion with single storey coach house and 5 storey service wing on right hand east side within same overall height. 9 bays wide with vermiculated quoins. The ground floor has smooth rustication and large central porch of coupled Tuscan columns with vermiculated banding. Plain ground floor sash windows with semicircular arches; 1st floor piano nobile windows with bracketed segmental pediments and blind balcony balustrades. Plain square 2nd floor windows. Enriched bands at 1st and 2nd floor levels, bracketed entablature and balustraded parapet with large carved urns; corniced and rusticated chimney stacks. Elevation to Green Park of 7 bays in the rhythm 1:5:1, the single outer bays having wide Venetian windows on the piano nobile. On east side the coach house blind wall has rusticated quoins, pilasters dividing 3 panels and balustraded ball finialed parapet and is linked to service wing along Little St James Street by screen wall with double gates to yard flanked by gate piers with cast iron lamp standards. The service wing is stucco faced with rusticated quoins. Glazing bar sash windows, one on 3rd floor with bracketed balcony and canopy. Bracketed crowning cornice with blocking and corniced turrets to angles with arches. Taller belvedere to rear with coupled windows, corner turrets and balustrades. Grand and freely handled High Renaissance style interior of which the principal feature is the marble lined 2 storey top lit hall arcaded on both floors, little altered except for the picture gallery. Restored after war damage and adapted for office use.
London Vol I N Pevsner;
Survey of London; vol XXX
Listing NGR: TQ2920380070
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209213
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London I: The Cities of London and Westminster, (1962)
Survey of London in The Parish of St James Westminster Part 1 South of Piccadilly: Volumes 29 and 30, Vol. 30, (1960)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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