2-8, CARLOS PLACE W1
2-8, CARLOS PLACE W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066348
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1982
- List Entry Name:
- 2-8, CARLOS PLACE W1
- Statutory Address:
- 2-8, CARLOS PLACE W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066348
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1982
- List Entry Name:
- 2-8, CARLOS PLACE W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-8, CARLOS PLACE W1
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:
- 2-8, CARLOS 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 28574 80665
Details
TQ 2880 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CARLOS PLACE W1 69/62 Nos 2 to 8 (consec) 6.10.82 II GV
A quadrant block of houses 1891-93 by J E Trollope of Giles, Gough and Trollope. Red brick with lavish Portland stone dressings, slate roofs. Free English/Flemish Renaissance style. Four storeys, basement and attic storey with dormers and shaped and straight gables. Effective rhythm of canted bay windows through storeys, balustraded parapets and gables, enlivened on alternate houses by bands of carved brick Renaissance decorative ornament. The canted bays, with mullioned lights and glazing bars and leading, are in some cases capped with ogee copper roofs. Semicircular arched and recessed porches. No 8 has a polygonal bay window to corner and a 2 storey rear wing the upper part timber framed. Basement areas have ornamental cast iron railings. Panelled stone and brick chimney stacks prominent on ridge of roof. Part of the 1880s-90s rebuilding of Mount Street for the Grosvenor Estate. Prominent corner site.
Survey of London Vol XL.
Listing NGR: TQ2857480665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208969
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 2 The buildings: Volume 40 , Vol. 40, (1980)
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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