98, PORTLAND PLACE W1, 8-14, PARK CRESCENT W1, 1-6, PARK CRESCENT W1

1-6, PARK CRESCENT W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1225956
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 98, PORTLAND PLACE W1, 8-14, PARK CRESCENT W1, 1-6, PARK CRESCENT W1
Statutory Address:: 1-6, PARK CRESCENT W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1225956
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 98, PORTLAND PLACE W1, 8-14, PARK CRESCENT W1, 1-6, PARK CRESCENT W1
Statutory Address 1:: 1-6, PARK CRESCENT W1
Statutory Address 2:: 8-14, PARK CRESCENT W1
Statutory Address 3:: 98, PORTLAND PLACE W1

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-6, PARK CRESCENT W1
Statutory Address:: 8-14, PARK CRESCENT W1
Statutory Address:: 98, PORTLAND PLACE 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 28791 82119

Details

TQ 2882 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARK CRESCENT, Wl 36/23 (east side) 5.2.70 Nos. 1 to 6 (consec,) 8, 10, 12 and 14 (Including No. 98 Portland Place) G.V. I Quadrant of town houses forming eastern half of crescent. 1812 (restored after war damage) by John Nash and the earliest feature of his Regent's Park development. Stucco faced; slate roofs. Simple spacious Grecian detailing distinguished by the unifying sweep of the ground floor colonnade. 4 storeys (including attic storey) and basement. 3 window-wide fronts, the end houses have very slightly advanced fronts as terminal pavilions with returns to Marylebone Road and Portland Place respectively, the latter with colonnade returned as well. The colonnade of coupled Ionic columns on square plinths uniformly screens the basement areas and ground floors with balustraded parapet to terrace over dentil corniced entablature; the channelled ground floor has square headed recessed doorways (some altered to windows) and recessed glazing bar sashes. Between the end pavilions the 1st floor glazing bar sashes are semicircular arched and recessed for 2 orders; square headed recessed glazing bar sashes to 2nd floor and attic storey. The end pavilion houses have square headed windows in shallow architraves, with cornices over on 1st floor, and semicircular arched attic storey windows; similar fenestration to their returns but the ground floor windows to Marylebone Road also semicircular headed. Cornice and blocking course over 2nd floor; attic cornice and balustraded parapet over the intervening houses and shallow block pediments with acroteria to terminal pavilions. Cast iron spear head area railings in the intercolumniations. Park Crescent is Nash's sweeping introduction to Regent's Park, via Park Square q.v., from the axis of Portland Place and is the southern half of the vast projected circus in his 1811-12 scheme. John Nash; John Summerson. History of the King's Works; VI.

Listing NGR: TQ2873882062

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Legacy System number:: 422998
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Summerson, J, The Life and Work of John Nash, (1980)
Mordaunt Crook, J, Port, M H , 'The History of the Kings Works' in The History of the Kings Works 1782-1851, , Vol. 6, (1973)

Legal

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