27, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1, 28/32, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1

27, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1066354
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
List Entry Name:
27, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1, 28/32, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
Statutory Address:
27, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
User submitted image
Contributed by Andrew Scott This photo may not represent the current condition of the site. Over 400,000 images and stories have been added to the Missing Pieces Project so far. Share your story.
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.
Date:
2002-03-04
Reference:
IOE01/04969/03
Rights:
© Mr Richard Keeler. Source: Historic England Archive

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1066354
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Jan-2001
List Entry Name:
27, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1, 28/32, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
Statutory Address 1:
27, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
Statutory Address 2:
28/32, 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
27, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
Statutory Address:
28/32, 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 27642 81509

Details

1900/43/108 BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
1900/54/8 LISSON GROVE
10-SEP-54 (West side)
28/32
BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
LISSON GROVE
(West side)
27

(Formerly listed as:
BRYANSTON SQUARE W1
LISSON GROVE
27, 27A AND 28 TO 32)

II

Terraced town houses 1811 by Joseph Parkinson for the Portman Estate. Brown brick with banded stucco rustication to ground floor; Nos. 27-28 entirely stuccoed; concealed slate roofs. Originally part of a complete terrace balancing the east side of the square, Nos. 1 to 21 consec. q.v. (for surviving south end see Nos. 44 to 48 consec.) with end pair Nos. 27-28 as a terminal pavilion dressed with Ionic order and partly altered pedimented attic. 4 and 5 storeys on basement. Each front 3 windows wide with Nos. 27-28 as a unified 5-window composition with entrance to No. 27 in Bryanston Place return. Doorways to right with panelled doors and semicircular fanlights; Nos. 29 to 32 with inset Greek Doric columns. Recessed sashes, some retaining glazing bars, under flat gauged arches to brick upper floors. Nos. 27-28 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, altered by later attic heightening to left. The remainder have continuous, 1st floor cast iron balconies and crowning stucco cornice and blocking courses. The Bryanston Place return of No. 27 has full height bow to right of doorway. Cast iron area railings with urn finials.

[ "Georgian London" John Summerson. ]

Listing NGR: TQ2764281509

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
208881
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.

Ordnance survey map of 27, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1, 28/32, BRYANSTON SQUARE W1

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 29-Jun-2026 at 07:38:15.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos