48, GREEK STREET W1

48, GREEK STREET W1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1066720
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:
48, GREEK STREET W1
Statutory Address:
48, GREEK STREET W1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1066720
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:
48, GREEK STREET W1
Statutory Address 1:
48, GREEK 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
48, GREEK 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 29784 81102

Details

TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREEK STREET, W1 58/58 24.2.58 No. 48 GV II Medium sized terrace house. c.1741-42 retaining good interior. Brown brick, slate roof. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide. Ground floor much altered with entrance to right. Upper floors have recessed metal casements in original stone architraves, those on 1st floor with pulvinated friezes and cornices. 1st floor stone plat band and sill band; parapet with stone coping (originally with cornice). Wrought iron urn finialed area railings. Interior retains some of the original fittings with panelling and plasterwork ceilings to ground floor rooms, despite alterations, passage archway to stair compartment flanked by Ionic pilaster; open well full height stair compartment with coved ceiling and lantern light, cut string carved bracket stair with column balusters and newels; good 1st floor front room panelling with enriched dado and cornice, marble chimneypiece, elaborately modelled plasterwork to ceiling with cartouches and female masks etc, panelled 2nd floor rooms with box cornices, and partially intact panelling to closet rooms etc. Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.

Listing NGR: TQ2978481102

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
209931
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Anne Soho: Volumes 33 and 34 , Vol. 33, (1966)

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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