1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1, 85A, DUKE STREET W1

1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1066879
Date first listed:
14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1, 85A, DUKE STREET W1
Statutory Address:
1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1066879
Date first listed:
14-Jan-1970
Date of most recent amendment:
21-May-1991
List Entry Name:
1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1, 85A, DUKE STREET W1
Statutory Address 1:
1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1
Statutory Address 2:
85A, DUKE STREET W1

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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

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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Location

Statutory Address:
1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1
Statutory Address:
85A, 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 28450 80947

Details

The entry for:- TQ 2880 NW DUKE'S YARD, W1 68/14 Nos 1, lA and 2 (including No 85 Duke Street) GV 14.1.70 II the address and description shall be amended to read:

TQ 2880 NW DUKE'S YARD, W1 68/14 Nos 1, 1A and 2 (including Nos 85 and 85A Duke Street) GV 14.1.70 II Mews range, partly with later shop. 1900-02 by Eustace Balfour find Thackeray Turner. Red brick with Portland Stone-attic and ground floor. Tiled roof with gables to attic and tall brick panelled chimney stacks. Free style in Philip Webb manner. 2 storeys and attics. 15 window range. Coach house/garage doors articulated by stone pilasters. Recessed sashes; 1st floor with gauged brick heads under shallow brick arcading with pilasters defining bays. Above, at attic level, a projecting modillion cornice. The row is continued by Nos 85 and 85A Duke Street in similar style but with a c1910 shopfront. Left hand return with glazed brick facing to ground floor and lower gabled wing beyond with square-headed entrance with overlight. Right hand return with shaped and coped gable with large central stack and lower wing beyond with reproduction C18 pedimented doorcase framing a segmental arched doorway with panelled door being the entrance to No 85A; ground floor with glazed brick facing.

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TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER DUKE'S YARD, W1 68/14 14.1.70 Nos. 1, lA and 2 (including No. 85 Duke Street) G.V. II Mews range. 1900-02 by Eustace Balfour and Thackeray Turner. Red brick and Portland stone, tiled roof. Sophisticated yet restrained Free Style exercise in the late Philip Webb manner. 2 storeys and attics. Coach_house/garage doors articulated by stone pilasters. lst floor has range of flush framed sash windows. Shallow brick pilastered arcading above, modillion cornice and stone faced attic with windows rising as dormers into roof. Gable to return of No. 1 with glazed brick facing to ground floor. The row is continued by No. 85 Duke Street which has a c. 1910 shop front, the Duke Street return with shaped stone coped gable and lower wing beyond with round arched doorway. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2844080943

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
209551
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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