35A, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1, 29-35, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1

29-35, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213434
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: 35A, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1, 29-35, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1
Statutory Address:: 29-35, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213434
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: 35A, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1, 29-35, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1
Statutory Address 1:: 29-35, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1
Statutory Address 2:: 35A, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: 29-35, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1
Statutory Address:: 35A, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE W1

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 27756 81205

Details

TQ 2781 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE, 54/74 W1 14.1.70 Nos. 29 to 35 (odd) and 35A G.V. II Terraced town houses. c.1789-90, possibly by William Porden (who had a lease on No. 38 q.v.) as part of a Portman Estate development, originally intended as a complete circus or double crescent of which only the eastern half (Nos. 24 to 42, even, q.v.) was built according to plan. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors (plain to No. 35A); concealed slate roofs. 5 storeys, except for 4-storeyed No. 35A, on basements. 3-window wide fronts except for No. 35A which has 2 window and 5-window return to Upper Berkeley Street with entrance. Semicircular arched doorways to right with panelled doors and fanlights, Nos. 29 to 33 in mid C.19 stucco surrounds, No. 35 retaining original patterned fanlight and No. 35A with enclosed Ionic columned stucco porch to return. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Plat bands finishing off ground floor stucco work and band at 1st floor pseudo parapet level cut by windows; stringcourses to 2nd and 3rd floors and main entablature with bold dentil cornice over 3rd floor; crowning cornice and blocking course. No. 35 is emphasised as pavilion of formerly symmetrical terrace composition by an order of 4, thin, Ionic pilasters through 1st and 2nd floors. No. 35A has plain front finished off with cornice and blocking course. Original, cast iron, geometric patterned 1st floor balconies, with individual balconettes to No. 35A. Cast iron area railings with urn finials and Nos. 29, 33 and 35 with notably elegant wrought iron lamp brackets and link extinguishers.

Listing NGR: TQ2775681205

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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.