2-10, EATON GATE SW1

2-10, EATON GATE SW1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1211023
Date first listed:
01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
2-10, EATON GATE SW1
Statutory Address:
2-10, EATON GATE SW1
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1211023
Date first listed:
01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
2-10, EATON GATE SW1
Statutory Address 1:
2-10, EATON GATE 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.

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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:
2-10, EATON GATE 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 28225 78836

Details

In the entry for; 102/9 CITY OF WESTMINSTER EATON GATE, SW1 Nos 2 to 10 (even) The date of 'Early C20' shall be amended to read '1905'. The following shall be added to the end of the description;

Interior: All houses have mid C18 style dog-leg staircases with turned balusters; ovolo-moulded Elizabethan-style stair windows, with Art Nouveau patterns to eaves; panelled walls; stair halls have mid C18 style cornicing and doorcases with enriched friezes . Fireplaces in all rooms are worked in a variety of styles, mainly C18 but also with Elizabethan-style caryatids and detailing to some; fine plasterwork ceilings to all first and second floor rooms worked in a variety of styles from early C17 strapwork designs, to Queen Anne and Neo-classical styles; major rooms are panelled; second-floor rooms are plain. Nos 2 and 4 not inspected but noted as having similar interiors.

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TQ 2878 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER EATON GATE , SW1 102/9 Nos 2 to 10 (even) GV II Irregular group of terraced houses. Early C20. Balfour and Turner. Portland stone with some stock brick; tiled roof Byzantinizing Free Style. 4 storeys plus roof storey except No 10 which of 3 storeys. Each house 3 windows wide. Portland stone cladding from basement to second floor; stock brick above, with red dressings. Segmental headed entrances (No 10 semicircular entrance with pair of round headed windows to right). No 10 with broad 2 storey canted bay window. No 2 with 3 storey canted bay window, gabled. Nos 4 to 8 with broad canted bay windows to first floor, supported on squat pilasters with cushion capitals. Bay windows with richly foliated cornices, and balustraded to Nos 2 to 8. Square headed sashed windows, small panes, glazing bars; windows to third floor and attic with segmental heads. Modillion cornice above second floor. Gable to each house with attic windows. Return to right of No 2 pilastered. Wrought iron area railings and lead down pipes and gutter-boxes of Arts and Crafts design. London, Vol I, N Pevsner.

Listing NGR: TQ2822578836

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
209560
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London I - The Cities of London and Westminster, (1973)

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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 2-10, EATON GATE SW1

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