Numbers 1-9 Including Railings to North and East
NUMBERS 1-9 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO NORTH AND EAST, 1-9, CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1209780
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-9 Including Railings to North and East
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1-9 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO NORTH AND EAST, 1-9, CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE SW1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1209780
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-9 Including Railings to North and East
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1-9 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO NORTH AND EAST, 1-9, CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE SW1
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:
- NUMBERS 1-9 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO NORTH AND EAST, 1-9, CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE SW1
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 29695 80195
Details
TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, SW1 82/72 Nos 1 to 9 (consec) including railings to 9.1.70 (excluding railings) north and east
GV I
One of a pair of symmetrical palatial terraces of grand town houses flanking the stepped up approach to Waterloo Place. 1827-29 by John Nash with (Sir) James Pennethorne. Stucco, slate roofs. Broad Graeco-Roman panache; designed as the monumental termination to Nash's Via Triumphalis as a replacement for Carlton House. 4 storeys and basement to north. 3 storeys with 3-storey and attic end pavilions to south, the whole raised on terrace overlooking the Park. 31 windows wide. The north entrance front, relatively plain with projecting end pavilions, has individual Ionic or Doric columned portico-porches. Recessed glazing bar sashes. Cornice and blocking course returned to flanks facing steps. Cast iron spear head area railings. Nash's personal contribution is the Park front where the fenestration is in the rhythm 5:8:5:8:5 with the taller end pavilions slightly projecting. Recessed architraved glazing bar sashes with cornices, articulated by giant Corinthian order through ground and 1st floors, engaged to end pavilions, detached to long central range which has pediment with acanthus scrollwork in tympanum over 5 centre bays of attic. The double height attics of the end pavilions are articulated by panelled pilaster-piers in antis. Curious feature of deeply cantilevered balustraded balconies to the 1st floor windows within the giant order. The deep balustraded terrace carried on engaged cast iron Doric columns with segmental arched windows in between. The east flank has continuous balustraded 1st floor balcony. Nos 1, 2 and 3, built by Decimus Burton, retain elements of their Grecian interiors. The interior of No 6 sumptuously remodelled internally in a Quattrocento style by Sir Ernest George 1889-90. Nos 7 to 9, formerly the German Embassy, have interiors redecorated in 1937 under the direction of Albert Speer, although No 7 retains its Rococo staircase and ground floor wall paintings by G. F. Watts of 1856-58. W. E. Gladstone lived variously at No 4 and Nos 11 and 13 q.v.
Survey of London; Vol XX. John Nash; John Summerson. London, Volume I; N. Pevsher.
Listing NGR: TQ2971780174
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208995
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London I - The Cities of London and Westminster, (1973)
Summerson, J, The Life and Work of John Nash, (1980)
Survey of London in Trafalgar Square and neighbourhood The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 3: Volume 20 , Vol. 20, (1979)
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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