Chester House
CHESTER HOUSE, CLARENDON PLACE W2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219442
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Chester House
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTER HOUSE, CLARENDON PLACE W2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219442
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Chester House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTER HOUSE, CLARENDON PLACE W2
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:
- CHESTER HOUSE, CLARENDON PLACE W2
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 27172 80925
Details
TQ 2780 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CLARENDON PLACE W2 66/9 Chester House 10.4.75 GV II
Villa-town house. 1925-26 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott for himself. Grey brick with sparing stone dressings, ferro-concrete floors; pantile roof. Restrained carefully proportioned stripped Renaissance design. Set back behind shallow "area" garden. Low 2 storeys, effectively read as 1½ storeys to centre but reverse proportion to wings. 7 bays wide including broad wings with hipped roofs, slightly advanced from ground floor but with the 1st floor between them set well back to form terrace. Central ashlar dressed doorway with shallow pediment. Slightly recessed box-framed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches, tripartite to ground floor of wings and, on their 1st floor, fully developed as 3 separate sashes grouped as 2 narrow ones flanking main central one and giving on to "pergola" balconies. The returns of wings to terrace have 2 light windows and there are 2 tripartite windows to the recessed centre. Stone plinth, ground floor sill band, and fluted brick and stone coped terrace parapet. Moulded stone crowning cornice with eaves resting on blocking. Elegantly proportioned chimney stacks with shallow stone cappings. Interior, with very restrained use of simplified classical details and mouldings, has a functionally planned ground floor incorporating garage in north east corner, kitchen, former servants' sitting room and former play room and nursery, the only reception rooms being the off-centre T-plan hall to right of entrance lobby and the dining room by the kitchen to left; the staircase rises on the cross axis of the hall to serve the piano nobile reception rooms and principal bedrooms giving on to the terrace - some redecoration but otherwise unaltered.
Representative British Architects: C. H. Reilly Twentieth Century Houses: Raymond McGrath Architectural Review
Listing NGR: TQ2717280925
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209197
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
McGrath, R, Twentieth Century Houses, (1934)
Reilly, CH, Representative British Architects, ()
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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