46, GROSVENOR STREET W1
46, GROSVENOR STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1066700
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 46, GROSVENOR STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 46, GROSVENOR STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1066700
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 46, GROSVENOR STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 46, GROSVENOR 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:
- 46, GROSVENOR 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 28531 80761
Details
TQ 2880 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GROSVENOR STREET Wl 69/81 (south side) No 46 GV II* A large mansion. 1910 by Blow and Billerey, a refacing and restructuring of a pair of mid C18 houses. Portland stone, slate roof. A rather ponderous exercise in C18 French style. Four storeys and basement, the top floor as mansard attic. Three widely spaced window bays. The ground floor has deeply modelled rustication and 3 large semi-circular arched openings with carved head keystones. Piano nobile and second floor windows have architraves, those on first floor with balustrades incorporated in a dentilled and enriched plat band, and the architrave surmounted by pediments on consoles. Stone balustraded area wall. Rear to garden has a more animated design, 5 bays, the centre 3 advanced, with the first floor windows of the recessed bays and in the centre framed by pedimented aedicules. The interior retains highly ornate and stylistically electic decoration incorporating salvaged European medieval and Renaissance features combined and reset with great skill and craftsmanship (eg entrance hall and staircases) and on the first floor a grand late Louis XV style Music room/ ballroom with gilded boiseries and frescoed ceiling, probably by Maurice Tastemain for Billerey, etc. Survey of London Vol XL.
Listing NGR: TQ2853180761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209981
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 2 The buildings: Volume 40 , Vol. 40, (1980)
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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