41, CHELSEA SQUARE SW3
41, CHELSEA SQUARE SW3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189675
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1981
- List Entry Name:
- 41, CHELSEA SQUARE SW3
- Statutory Address:
- 41, CHELSEA SQUARE SW3
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189675
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1981
- List Entry Name:
- 41, CHELSEA SQUARE SW3
- Statutory Address 1:
- 41, CHELSEA SQUARE SW3
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:
- 41, CHELSEA SQUARE SW3
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26899 78154
Details
TQ 2678 SE CHELSEA SQUARE, SW3
249/55/34 No. 41
GV 6/7/81 II
Private house. 1934, by Oliver Hill Freda, Lady Forbes. White-painted stucco house, neo-Georgian in style, square in plan with cruciform upper storey. Two storeys and semi-basement. Low-pitched tiled roofs with pedimented gables and 2 tall chimney stacks. Flight of steps, with decorative fretwork railing and lamp standard up to central entrance with bracketed cornice-hood. Sash windows with glazing bars: segmental-headed to semi-basement, square-headed to upper storey. Symmetry of main facade broken by variety of window-shapes and types to ground floor: segmental-headed with shutters, square-headed and round. Main facade to south (garden) side, with oval oculus in gable, echoing the pediment of No 40, with which this house forms a picturesque ensemble. Main facade to south side.
Interior retains original staircase hall with deep coved ceiling. Open-well staircase rises up five steps, then turns through ninety degrees and rises to projecting, curved landing. Each step treated as a separate horizontal motif to side, with wide-spaced twisted balusters. Stair to basement retains the original fretwork balustrading but is reversed. Entrance hall leads to dining room, designed to house Lady Forbes's Aubusson tapestries and with jib door and early-C18-style fireplace. The entrance hall and living room remodelled with paired dentiled cornices by Sir Nigel Boakes, who added a charming double-height garden room in neo-Gothick style, designed by Chapman Taylor c.1980. On the first floor the principal bedroom retains its original high cove which incorporates the gable oculus.
Source: Country Life, 16 February 1935, pp.168-172.
Listing NGR: TQ2689978154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203639
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 16 February, (1935), 168-172
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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