NUMBERS 1, 3 AND 5 (MEWS TO NUMBERS 8, 10 AND 12 PARK STREET) AND SERVICE BLOCK ALONG ALDFORD STREET

8-12, PARK STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226154
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1, 3 AND 5 (MEWS TO NUMBERS 8, 10 AND 12 PARK STREET) AND SERVICE BLOCK ALONG ALDFORD STREET
Statutory Address:: 8-12, PARK STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226154
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Sep-1993
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1, 3 AND 5 (MEWS TO NUMBERS 8, 10 AND 12 PARK STREET) AND SERVICE BLOCK ALONG ALDFORD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 8-12, PARK STREET W1
Statutory Address 2:: NUMBERS 1, 3 AND 5 (MEWS TO NUMBERS 8, 10 AND 12 PARK STREET) AND SERVICE BLOCK ALONG ALDFORD STREET, 1-5, REX 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:: 8-12, PARK STREET W1
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1, 3 AND 5 (MEWS TO NUMBERS 8, 10 AND 12 PARK STREET) AND SERVICE BLOCK ALONG ALDFORD STREET, 1-5, REX 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 28280 80462

Details

In the entry for: TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARK STREET, W1 79/9 (east side) 5.2.70 Nos. 8 to 12 (even) GV II the entry shall be amended to read as follows:

TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARK STREET, W1 79/9 (east side) 5.2.70 Nos. 8, 10 and 12 (including nos. 1, 3 and 5 Rex Place and sendce block along Aldford Street) II and the following shall be added to the list description: Also included are the two-storey, stone and brick service block to the north of the block, along Aldford Street and the mews to the rear, nos. 1, 3 and 5 Rex Place. The elevations to Aldford Street match the main block in materials and design. The units to Rex Place have two windows each and two storeys with a single, long dormer to each. Stucco facing, brick and hipped roofs of tile. Segmental-arched openings to the ground floor and flat-arched to the first floor and dormers. Party walls with stone coping expressed above the roof.

------------------------------------ The following entry shall be added to the list: TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER REX PLACE, W1 1900-/79/9 Nos 1,3 and 5 (mews to nos.8,10 and 12 park Street) see under nos.8, 10 and 12 PARK STREET. ------------------------------------- TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARK STREET, Wl 79/9 (east side) 5.2.70 Nos.8 to 12 (even) G.V. II Terraced town houses, 1897-1901 by A.H. Kersey. Red brick with ample Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Busy Tudor-Gothic style with carved decoration. 4 storeys and attic storey partly in gables, partly in dormers, basements. No. 12 larger with entrance to side elevation in Aldford Street. No. 8 and 10 treated as a pair of 2 wide window bays. Recessed porches to left and right in projecting ground floor, Tudor arched with paired columns on high pedestals, the entablature with pulvinated carved frieze carried right across ground floor of all three houses. Paired canted bays with tent roofs through 1st and 2nd floors of Nos. 8 and 10, the stone dressing linking up with that of continuous band of windows across fronts, all stone mullioned and transomed with Tudor cusped arched lights, windows above porches recessed in archways. Common gable with flanking miniature bartizan turrets over centre bays of Nos. 8 and 10, the elaborated brick chimney stack rising from apex. Return of No. 12 has 2 similar gables and long multi-light dormer between, a 3 storey canted bay and similar recessed porch and banded fenestration including large 1st floor mullioned transomed window with good Gothic ironwork. Ornate and finely wrought Gothic ironwork to area railings. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2828080462

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Sources

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'Survey of London' in Survey of London - The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 2 The buildings: Volume 40 , , Vol. 40, (1980)

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