ALBANY COURTYARD

ALBANY COURTYARD, 1-5, ALBANY W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1209755
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: ALBANY COURTYARD
Statutory Address:: ALBANY COURTYARD, 1-5, ALBANY W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1209755
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1958
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: ALBANY COURTYARD
Statutory Address 1:: ALBANY COURTYARD, 1-5, ALBANY W1
Statutory Address 2:: ALBANY COURTYARD, 6, ALBANY W1
Statutory Address 3:: ALBANY COURTYARD, PICCADILLY W1

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ALBANY COURTYARD, 1-5, ALBANY W1
Statutory Address:: ALBANY COURTYARD, 6, ALBANY W1
Statutory Address:: ALBANY COURTYARD, PICCADILLY 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 29274 80520

Details

TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALBANY (Piccadilly) W1

70/10 Albany Courtyard, Nos 1 to 6 24.2.58 (consec) 9.1.70 (No 6 only) GV I

Flanking forecourt wings of Melbourne House, 1771-76, by Sir William Chambers. Brown brick, slate roof. Each wing of 2 storeys and basement. 9 bays wide with centre 3 bays slightly advanced and pedimented. Central doorways to each group of 3 bays, with stone doorcases, pulvinated friezes and pediments. Revealed sash windows, no glazing bars, under flat gauged arches. Ground floor stone sill band and stone band cornice below parapet with coping. Part of rare surviving enclave of town mansion, converted and extended as apartments by Henry Holland in 1802-03.

Survey of London: vol XXXI Sir William Chambers; John Harris.

Listing NGR: TQ2927480520

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Legacy System number:: 208501
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Harris, J, Sir William Chambers Knight of the Polar Star, (1970)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.