79, MOUNT STREET W1
79, MOUNT STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223622
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 79, MOUNT STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 79, MOUNT STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223622
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 79, MOUNT STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 79, 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:
- 79, 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 28287 80534
Details
TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MOUNT STREET, W1 68/81 (south side)
No. 79
G.V. II
Terrace house. 1892-94 by Balfour and Turner. Red brick with Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Free Style Queen Anne, a restrained variant on No. 5 Aldford Street q.v. 4 storeys, basement and gabled attics. 3 windows wide. Entrance in enclosed porch with semicircular arched opening having 3 orders of mouldings with slender jamb shafts, imposts and stepped voussoirs. Above rises a 3 storey narrow canted bay balanced to left by a similar 3 storey canted bay carried on octagonal stone columns with rather Byzantine foliated caps, set in front of ground floor window. Narrow centre has single sash window to each floor identical with sashes of canted bays whose outer flanks are blind, all have glazing bars and shallow architraves. Crisply profiled stone string over ground floor, stone entablature carved above 3rd floor round the bays which are extended up into attic and finished with plain gables; dormer to centre above short link section of parapet. Arts and Crafts cast iron area railings. Part of island block development by Balfour and Turner as part of their Grosvenor Estate improvements.
Survey of London; Vol. XL.
Listing NGR: TQ2828780534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419387
- 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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