1-23, ALBION STREET W2

1-23, ALBION STREET W2

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209917
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
1-23, ALBION STREET W2
Statutory Address:
1-23, ALBION STREET W2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209917
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
1-23, ALBION STREET W2
Statutory Address 1:
1-23, ALBION STREET W2

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1-23, ALBION STREET W2

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 27287 81005

Details

TQ 2781 SW and CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALBION STREET W2 2780 NW 53/50 ;66/4 Nos 1 to 23 (consec.) 9.1.70 GV II

Range of terraced houses. c.1830-35, some alterations. Probably by George Gutch. Brown brick with channelled stuccoed ground floors, slate roofs. 4 storeys and basements. Each front 2 windows wide. Entrances principally to right hand of fronts. Semicircular arched doorways with panelled doors and patterned fanlights. Recessed sash windows, a few with glazing bars, those on upper floors under flat gauged arches. Platband finishing off stucco ground floors, 3rd floor sill band and stucco cornices with blocking courses. Cast iron geometric patterned 1st floor balconies. Cast iron spear head railings. Part of the early phase of the Tyburnia development planned by S. P. Cockerell in 1827 for the Bishop of London's Estate (Church Commissioners), but laid out to a modified plan by Cockerell's successor George Gutch.

"The History of Tyburnia"; G. Toplis, Country Life 15, 22 November 1973

Listing NGR: TQ2728781005

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
208523
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1973)
Country Life in 22 November, Vol. 15, (1973)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of 1-23, ALBION STREET W2

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