55-73, Duke Street
55-73, Duke Street W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066877
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 55-73, Duke Street
- Statutory Address:
- 55-73, Duke Street W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066877
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 55-73, Duke Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55-73, Duke 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:
- 55-73, Duke 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 28404 81048
Details
TQ 2881 SW
55/53
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
DUKE STREET, W1
Nos. 55 to 73 (odd)
GV
II
Terrace of shops and chambers. 1890-1892 by W.D. Caröe for the Grosvenor Estate. Narrow, fine red bricks with Ketton stone dressings and ground floor facing; slate roofs. Lively and eclectic Franco-Flemish Renaissance/Queen Anne style.
Three main storeys and two storeys of dormers in steep mansard with two storey Flemish gable over principal double frontage. Slightly asymmetrical composition with off centre gabled double frontage six windows wide flanked by two and three window wide fronts but with varied window groupings. Stone faced ground floor has basket handle arched doorways and display windows articulated by French Loire-style order with strapwork, cartouche and baluster enrichments, rising to cornice.
Upper floors have architraved and cavetto mullioned, single and coupled windows with cornices, in serried rank to second floor of double frontage; the first floor of Nos. 61-63 has a tent roofed mullioned and transomed canted bay on corbel brackets to right and there are tripartite, rectangular, tent roofed, corbelled bay windows to first floor of Nos. 71 and 73; that of No. 73 is run into a stone faced narrow square turret rising through second floor and mansard and terminating in a concave spire; at the north end No. 57 has a similar turret finished off with onion dome and spirelet. Pseudo-parapets to first and second floors and crowning entablature with superimposed Loire orders flanking fronts. Animated roofscape with canted stone dormers to lower tier and hipped roof dormers with spirelets to upper tier; much elaborated voluted and ball-finialed Flemish gable over-double frontage; moulded saddlestones to fore walls, rising from large console buttresses; tall brick chimney stack with enriched stone caps.
See also Caröe's slightly later block Nos. 75 to 83 odd Duke Street.
Listing NGR: TQ2841381026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209544
- 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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