1-8, DORSET SQUARE NW1
1-8, DORSET SQUARE NW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210609
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 1-8, DORSET SQUARE NW1
- Statutory Address:
- 1-8, DORSET SQUARE NW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210609
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 1-8, DORSET SQUARE NW1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-8, DORSET SQUARE NW1
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:
- 1-8, DORSET SQUARE NW1
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 27760 82064
Details
TQ 2782 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER DORSET SQUARE, NW1 (East side) 34/61 10.9.54 Nos. 1 to 8(consec.)
II G.V.
Terraced town houses forming east side of square. c.1815-20 Portman Estate development. Stock brick with stucco ground floors mostly banded; concealed slate roofs. Symmetrically balanced block with central pair (Nos. 4 and 5) slightly advanced. 4 storeys and basement. 3-window wide fronts apart from No. 1 with 4 windows and the central pair with 2 each. Doorways symmetrically placed to left and right, semicircular arched with panelled doors flanked by Greek Doric columns in antis carrying Greek key enriched doorheads below patterned fanlights (apart from Nos. 6, 7 and 8). Recessed sashes, some with glazing bars, under flat gauged arches to upper floors, those of central pair with stuccoed flat arches and keyblocks. Plat band over ground floor. Crowning stucco cornice and blocking course. Cast iron geometric pattern balconies across 1st floor and Nos. 1, 2 and 8 with good iron trellis standard verandahs with tent roofs. Cast iron area railings with urn finials.
Listing NGR: TQ2776082064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209499
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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