78, MOUNT STREET W1
78, MOUNT STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223621
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 78, MOUNT STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 78, MOUNT STREET W1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223621
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 78, MOUNT STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 78, MOUNT 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:
- 78, MOUNT 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 28280 80534
Details
TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MOUNT STREET, W1 68/80 (south side)
5.2.70 No. 78
G.V. II
Corner terrace house. 1896-97 by Balfour and Turner and virtually a pair to their No. 6 Aldford Street q.v. Red brick with Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Free Style Queen Anne and slightly Jacobethan details. 5 storeys and basement. 2 unequal window bays. Recessed porch to left with elliptical arch on broad squat stone piers, the right hand pier overlapping the 2 window ground floor bay with central dividing pilaster; the canted oriel of 4 architraved narrow sash lights is corbelled out and its cornice is capped by iron railing as balcony to 2nd floor tripartite stone dressed window with similar windows in line above. Narrower coupled and single stone dressed sashes to entrance bay on 2nd to 4th floors. The front is finished off with stone coped parapet raised as gable over major right hand bay. Return has 2 large corbelled chimney stacks linked by wide segmental arches with balconies to ground and 1st floors, irregular fenestration with small oriel butting stack nearest corner on 1st floor. Cast iron Arts and Crafts area railings returned with screen wall to garden linking up with those of No. 67 Aldford Street. Part of island block development by Balfour and Turner as part of their Grosvenor Estate improvements.
Survey of London; Vol. XL.
Listing NGR: TQ2828080534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419386
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 2 The buildings: Volume 40 , Vol. 40, (1980)
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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