65-76, CHESTER SQUARE SW1

65-76, CHESTER SQUARE SW1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219297
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
65-76, CHESTER SQUARE SW1
Statutory Address:
65-76, CHESTER SQUARE SW1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219297
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
65-76, CHESTER SQUARE SW1
Statutory Address 1:
65-76, CHESTER SQUARE 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:
65-76, CHESTER SQUARE 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:
TQ2861379026

Details

TQ 2879 SE
98/48
9.1.70

CITY OF WESTMINSTER
CHESTER SQUARE, SW1
(south side)

Nos 65 to 76 (consec)

GV
II

Terrace of houses. Planned 1828, started about 1835. Stucco. Slate mansards.
3 storeys, attic, attic mansard and basement. Each house 2 windows wide. Centre
and end houses one window wide and set forward slightly, with paired giant
pilasters to first and second floors. Channelling to ground floor. Square
headed entrances and windows. Panelled doors. Centre and end houses with first
floor windows set in segmental arched reveals. Cast iron first floor balconies
of anthemion pattern. Sashes. Some glazing bars, some plate glass. French
windows to first floor. Cornice above second floor; subsidiary cornice above
third floor. Cast iron spearhead area railings. Return also of interest.
Integral part of planned development.

London Vol I N Pevsner.

Listing NGR: TQ2861379026

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
209164
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London I: The Cities of London and Westminster, (1962)

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 65-76, CHESTER SQUARE SW1

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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