54 AND 56, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213419
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: 54 AND 56, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1
Statutory Address:: 54 AND 56, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1

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Date:: 2001-08-28
Reference:: IOE01/05454/04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213419
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: 54 AND 56, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1
Statutory Address 1:: 54 AND 56, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE 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:: 54 AND 56, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE 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 27767 81307

Details

TQ 2781 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE, 54/40 Wl 14.1.70 No. 54 and 56 G.V. II Pair of terraced houses. c.1800-20 Portman Estate development. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors; concealed slate roofs. 4 storeys and 5 storeys on basement. 2-window wide fronts. Right hand doorways and ground floor windows recessed for one order in arcade, No. 54 with Tuscan columned, dentil corniced porch, panelled doors and fanlights. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Plat band finishing off ground floor stuccowork; stone coped parapet to No. 56; stucco string over 3rd floor of No. 54 and crowning dentil cornice and blocking course to top floor. Original, cast iron, geometric patterned balconies to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with urn finials.

Listing NGR: TQ2776781307

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Legacy System number:: 209869
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.