16, CHARLES STREET W1, 14, HAY'S MEWS W1
14, HAY'S MEWS W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217940
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 16, CHARLES STREET W1, 14, HAY'S MEWS W1
- Statutory Address:
- 14, HAY'S MEWS W1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217940
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 16, CHARLES STREET W1, 14, HAY'S MEWS W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, HAY'S MEWS W1
- Statutory Address 2:
- 16, CHARLES STREET W1
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:
- 14, HAY'S MEWS W1
- Statutory Address:
- 16, CHARLES STREET 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 28661 80407
Details
TQ 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HAY'S MEWS,W1 80/27 No 16
GV II*
the address shall be amended to read No 14.
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TQ 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARLES STREET W1 80/27 (north side) No 16 (including 16 Hay's Mews) 9.1.70 GV II*
the address shall be amended to read "CHARLES STREET W1 (north side) No 16 (including 14 Hay's Mews)".
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TQ 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARLES STREET W1 80/27 (North side) No 16 (including 16 9.1.70 Hay's Mews)
GV II*
Substantial terraced town house. 1753, by John Spencer and William Timbrell, carpenters on a Berkeley estate lease; major internal remodelling in 1913-14 by Mewes and Davis for the Hon Mrs Ronald Greville. Brown brick, slate roof. 4 storeys, including attic storey and dormered mansard, on basement. 4 windows wide. c.1913 stone Ionic columned doorway with open cartouched pediment in 2nd bay from left. Recessed glazing bar sash windows under flat gauged arches. Stone plat band and sill band to 1st floor; main stone cornice over 2nd floor; parapet with coping. Cast iron area railings and stone obelisk gate piers in front of entrance. Interiors on vast and grand scale, retaining elements of original Palladian decoration but much elaborated by Mewes and Davis in neo-Georgian and "Louis XV-XVI" manner, incorporating apparently original boiseries; double pile plan with rear left full height, top lit grand stair compartment, marble clad as are stairs up to the "Stage noble" (probably the original disposition) with fine ormulu-enriched wrought iron "Louis XVI" balustrade; at 1st floor the compartment walls have large Kentian framed panels flanked by floral pendants and at the 2nd floor level, with bridge- gallery, rectangular framed panels; enriched plat bands and cornices. Ground floor reception rooms fully panelled incorporating reset elements of French mid- C18 boiseries; the Rococo plasterwork of the ceilings and the enriched modillion cornices may incorporate or be an elaboration of the original decoration. 1st floor through drawing room-ballroom with marble Ionic column screen and reset boiseries of c.1730-40, plasterwork of ceiling conceivably an elaboration-refurbishment but more likely Mewes and Davis work as it is more French than English in style. Fine statuary marble chimney pieces. Vaulted passages one above the other to ground and 1st floors, the latter with grotesque painting, lead to rear former coach house wing on Hay's Mews where Mewes and Davis installed a vast ballroom in grand Palladian manner, with deeply coved ceiling, columned and pedimented doorcases, etc.
Listing NGR: TQ2866180407
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209106
- 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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