COPE HOUSE

COPE HOUSE, 15B, KENSINGTON PALACE GARDENS W8

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224081
Date first listed:: 14-May-1984
List Entry Name:: COPE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: COPE HOUSE, 15B, KENSINGTON PALACE GARDENS W8

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224081
Date first listed:: 14-May-1984
List Entry Name:: COPE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: COPE HOUSE, 15B, KENSINGTON PALACE GARDENS W8

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: COPE HOUSE, 15B, KENSINGTON PALACE GARDENS W8

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 25740 80131

Details

TQ 2580 SE KENSINGTON PALACE GARDENS W8 26/19 14.5.84 15B (Cope House) GV II

House, formerly stables to No 15. 1854-6, architect James Thomas Knowles Snr (1806-84), for George Moore, lace manufacturer and philanthropist; contractors Lucas Brothers and Stevens of Lambeth. Converted to house 1937-8, architects J. Fooks and T. Ritchie. Brick faced in stucco, Welsh slated hipped roofs to wings, those of centre concealed by balustraded parapet, stuccoed chimney stacks with modillion cornices. Central block originally stables, with tack rooms and lofts in north wing, and coach house in south wing. Two storeys, Italianate style, matching the main house on a smaller scale. Ground floor rusticated and vermiculated, with pulvinated frieze, and modillion cornice at first floor level, first floor with rusticated quoins. Slit windows on ground floor, arched openings on first floor, some blank, with modelled keystones, and aedicules with segmental pediments carried on moulded consoles. Frieze and bold overhanging cornice with bracket modillions. Modern windows in centre. Ground floor continues from north wing as screen wall, surmounted by balustrade, concealing former stable yard from garden of No.15, breaks forward with arched opening with horse's head modelled on keystone. Continuation of screen wall opened out to form colonnade in 1980s. Low screen wall surmounted by balustrade runs west along carriage drive, and now forms property boundary. Interior much-altered and not inspected. House and stables were virtually unchanged when, in December 1923, the lease was assigned to Daniel William Fooks. His widow surrendered the lease in January 1938, on condition that the property was divided, and she was given the lease of the stables for residential conversion. The main house was leased by Sir Alfred Beit, son of the financier and philanthropist Sir Otto Beit, and internally remodelled by Lord Gerald Wellesley and Trenwith Wills in 1937-8. The property was divided along the line of the old screen wall south of the house. Further alterations took place in the 1980s.

[Survey of London, Vol XXXVII, pp 175-8]

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 420056
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Survey of London' in Survey of London - Northern Kensington: Volume 37, (1973), 175-8

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.