79 AND 81, HARLEY STREET W1
79 AND 81, HARLEY STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066674
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 79 AND 81, HARLEY STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 79 AND 81, HARLEY STREET W1
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066674
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 79 AND 81, HARLEY STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 79 AND 81, HARLEY STREET 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:
- 79 AND 81, 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 28614 81736
Details
TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, W1 45/55 (West side) 10.9.54 Nos. 79 and 81 G.V. II Terraced town houses. c.1774 Portland Estate development, No. 79 by John White in partnership with the plasterer Thomas Collins (associates of Sir William Chambers) and No. 81 by John Johnson. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors; slate roofs. 4 storeys and basements, No. 81 with dormered mansard. 3-window wide fronts. Semicircular arched doorways to left with vermiculated Coade stone surrounds and head keystones; panelled doors, framed sidelights and shallow recessed doorheads under fanlights with Venetian window effect. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors, those of No. 81 with stucco architraves added with segmental pediments on consoles to 1st floor. 1st floor plat band; parapets with copings, No. 81 with mutule cornice below parapet. Continuous cast iron anthemion pattern 1st floor balconies. Wrought iron area railings with urn finials, No. 81 with scrollwork lampholders. Interiors retain some of the features typical of these 1st rate houses of the 1770s in Harley Street; top lit geometrical stone staircases, but with later iron balustrades; some Ionic columned or pilastered chimneypieces intact and plasterwork, mythological medallions, in No. 81 more markedly in an Adam-Wyatt manner characteristic of Johnson; etc.
Listing NGR: TQ2861481736
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210111
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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