QUEEN'S COLLEGE

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, 43-47, HARLEY STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066671
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: QUEEN'S COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: QUEEN'S COLLEGE, 43-47, HARLEY STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066671
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: QUEEN'S COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: QUEEN'S COLLEGE, 43-47, HARLEY STREET W1

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'S COLLEGE, 43-47, HARLEY STREET 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 28664 81578

Details

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, W1 45/96 (West side) 10.9.54 Nos. 43 to 47 (odd) (Queen's College) G.V. II Terraced town houses. c.1760 Portland Estate development probably by Henry Keene; the houses combined following the foundation of Queen's College at No. 45 as the first women's college by F.D. Morris in 1848; extension to rear in 1908. Stock brick; stuccoed ground floor; slate roof. 4 storeys and basements. 3-window wide fronts. Nos. 43 and 45 with linked, stucco, mid C.19 Doric columned porches; No. 47 with semicircular arched doorway to right with fanlight. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Plat band finishing off stuccowork; 1st floor sill band; parapet with stone coping. No. 47 with mid C.19 cast iron balcony across 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with flambe urn finials. Interiors of Nos. 45 and 47 retain fine stone staircases with wrought iron scrollwork balustrades; that to No. 45 in front compartment rising to 1st floor only with Rococo plasterwork to ceiling; that to rear of No. 47 rising full height and top-lit with some good Rococo Palladian plasterwork with Edwardian elaboration; dining room has ceiling in Rococo manner with central figured relief; some good statuary marble chimneypieces etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2866681576

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.