QUEEN MARY'S STEPS AND FRAGMENT OF WHITEHALL PALACE

QUEEN MARY'S STEPS AND FRAGMENT OF WHITEHALL PALACE, HORSE GUARDS AVENUE SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1066636
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: QUEEN MARY'S STEPS AND FRAGMENT OF WHITEHALL PALACE
Statutory Address:: QUEEN MARY'S STEPS AND FRAGMENT OF WHITEHALL PALACE, HORSE GUARDS AVENUE SW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1066636
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: QUEEN MARY'S STEPS AND FRAGMENT OF WHITEHALL PALACE
Statutory Address 1:: QUEEN MARY'S STEPS AND FRAGMENT OF WHITEHALL PALACE, HORSE GUARDS AVENUE 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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Location

Statutory Address:: QUEEN MARY'S STEPS AND FRAGMENT OF WHITEHALL PALACE, HORSE GUARDS AVENUE 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 30297 80072

Details

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HORSE GUARDS AVENUE, SWl 83/81 Queen Mary's Steps and Fragment 14.1.70 of Whitehall Palace G.V. I Part of former riverside terrace and steps and remains of palace wall. Reconstructed remains of Tudor Palace wall and 1691-93 north end of terrace and river steps by Sir Christopher Wren. Portland stone. The reconstructed Tudor work is part of the base of the corner of the river wall to Henry VIII's Whitehall Palace. In front of it is the surviving north end of Queen Mary's Terrace with curved flight of steps flanked by ashlar retaining walls of terrace; at the top of the steps, bases of 4 columns and the doorway sill of the river gate.

Listing NGR: TQ3029780072

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