16 AND 18, MONTAGU PLACE, 1-21, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1, 1 AND 1A, MONTAGU MEWS WEST, 1A, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
1 AND 1A, MONTAGU MEWS WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066352
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, MONTAGU PLACE, 1-21, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1, 1 AND 1A, MONTAGU MEWS WEST, 1A, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 1A, MONTAGU MEWS WEST
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066352
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, MONTAGU PLACE, 1-21, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1, 1 AND 1A, MONTAGU MEWS WEST, 1A, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 1A, MONTAGU MEWS WEST
- Statutory Address 2:
- 1-21, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
- Statutory Address 3:
- 16 AND 18, MONTAGU PLACE
- Statutory Address 4:
- 1A, BRYANSTON SQUARE 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:
- 1 AND 1A, MONTAGU MEWS WEST
- Statutory Address:
- 1-21, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 18, MONTAGU PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1A, BRYANSTON SQUARE 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 27720 81546
Details
TQ 2781 NE and SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER BRYANSTON SQUARE, W1 43/104; 54/1 (East side) 10.9.54 (No's 1A, 3 & 21 only) Nos. 1a and 1 to 21 9.1.70 consec. (Including Nos. 1 and 1A Montagu Mews West and Nos. 16 and 18 Montagu Place)
G.V. II
Terrace forming east side of square. 1811 by Joseph Parkinson for the Portman Estate; Nos. 10 to 12 and 19 to 21 rebuilt in facsimile. Brown brick with banded stucco rustication to ground floor, the end and centre houses entirely stuccoed; slate roofs. Symmetrical terrace design, the centre and end houses larger and dressed with Ionic order and pedimented attics. 4 storeys and basements (some heightened to 5 storeys). The centre and end houses each 5 windows wide; the intervening houses each 3 windows wide. Entrances to left hand, except for centre and end houses, panelled doors with sidelights and semicircular fanlights; No. 14 with inset Greek Doric columns and No. 15 with pilastered jambs. Recessed sashes, a few retaining glazing bars, under flat gauged arches to upper floors of 3-bay fronts (No. 7 has ground floor windows replaced by single canted bay). The end and centre stuccoed houses have 1st and 2nd floors articulated by Ionic order with flanking pilasters and engaged columns to centre carrying entablature; the attic storey with pilaster strips, cornice and blocking course and pediment over central 3 bays. Intervening houses have continuous, cast iron, 1st floor balconies and crowning stucco cornices and blocking courses. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. No. 1A has its front to George Street; stuccoed; 3 storeys, 5-bays wide; central wood doorcase with Doric columns, triglyphs, mutule cornice, open pediment and panelled soffit; stucco plat bands to 1st and 2nd floors, cornice and blocking course. The adjoining No. 1A Montagu Mews West has a 3 storey front with segmental arched recess containing garage door and tripartite 1st floor window; 2 recessed sashes to 2nd floor; parapet with coping. Plain mews building beyond. No. 1 has G.L.C. plaque recording residence of Mustapha Reschid Pasha in 1839.
Georgian London; John Summerson.
Listing NGR: TQ2772081546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208879
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Summerson, J, Georgian London, (1945)
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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