Nos 77 to 80 (consec), 80a and Mews Arch, Chester Square

77-80, CHESTER SQUARE SW1

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066276
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: Nos 77 to 80 (consec), 80a and Mews Arch, Chester Square
Statutory Address:: 77-80, CHESTER SQUARE SW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066276
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: Nos 77 to 80 (consec), 80a and Mews Arch, Chester Square
Statutory Address 1:: 77-80, CHESTER SQUARE SW1
Statutory Address 2:: 80A AND MEWS ARCH, CHESTER SQUARE SW1

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 77-80, CHESTER SQUARE SW1
Statutory Address:: 80A AND MEWS ARCH, CHESTER SQUARE 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 28631 79083

Details

TQ 2879 SE 98/50

CITY OF WESTMINSTER, SW1 CHESTER SQUARE (east side), Nos 77 to 80 (consec), 80a and Mews arch

9.1.70

GV II

Balanced terrace of houses. Planned 1828, started about 1835. Slate mansards (except 79). End house set forward slightly with paired giant pilasters rising through first and second floors. 3 storeys, attic, attic mansard, and basement. Each house 2 windows wide (No 77 of 3 bays). Channelling to ground floor. Square headed entrances and windows. No 79 with projecting porch. Panelled doors. Centre and end houses with first floor windows set in segmental arched reveals. Cast iron first floor balconies of anthemion pattern. Sashes, glazing bars, French windows to first floor. Cornice above second floor; subsidiary cornice above third floor. Cast iron spearheaded area railings. Return to left also of interest with attached stucco segmental headed mews arch. Planned development. GLC plaque to No 77 commemorating presence of the secretariat of Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945.

London Vol I N Pevsner.

Listing NGR: TQ2863179083

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Legacy System number:: 209165
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London I: The Cities of London and Westminster, (1962)

Legal

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