2-16 and 20-28 (even) Stafford Terrace
2-16 (even) Stafford Terrace, London, W8 7BH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226797
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 2-16 and 20-28 (even) Stafford Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- 2-16 (even) Stafford Terrace, London, W8 7BH
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226797
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Sept-2012
- List Entry Name:
- 2-16 and 20-28 (even) Stafford Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-16 (even) Stafford Terrace, London, W8 7BH
- Statutory Address 2:
- 20-28 (even) Stafford Terrace, London, W8 7BH
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:
- 2-16 (even) Stafford Terrace, London, W8 7BH
- Statutory Address:
- 20-28 (even) Stafford Terrace, London, W8 7BH
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:
- TQ2521379467
Summary
Terrace of town houses, built 1868 by Joseph Gordon Davis.
Reasons for Designation
Nos. 2-16 and 20-28 Stafford Terrace are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: an imposing and little-altered terrace of large mid-Victorian town houses;
* Group value: with the identical facing terrace (Nos. 1-27) and also No. 18 (Linley Sambourne House), which is separately listed at Grade II*.
History
Stafford Terrace was built in 1868 by Joseph Gordon Davis, who developed much of the surrounding Phillimore Estate from the mid-1850s onwards.
Details
MATERIALS: stock brick and stucco with slated mansard roofs.
PLAN: one of two facing terraces of 14 houses, each of three main storeys plus basement and attic. Each house is of two unequal bays, with the staircase to the left and the principal rooms to the right.
EXTERIOR: typical large mid-Victorian town houses, built in an Italianate style with much stucco trim to the street elevation. The houses are identical save for minor later modifications. Each has a raised entrance in the narrower left-hand bay, set within a porch with channelled rustication, Doric half-columns, dentil cornice and balustrade; the window above has a segmental pediment on scroll-brackets. To the right, a polygonal bay window – with similar rustication, cornices and balustrade – rises from the basement through to the first floor. The second-floor windows have simple architraves, and the façade is crowned by a rich cornice (wave-scrolls and dentils) and balustrade. In the attic above are segmental-headed dormers.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: some houses retain spear-topped area railings with separate gates and bell-pulls marked 'VISITORS' and 'SERVANTS'.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
'The Phillimore estate', Survey of London: volume 37: Northern Kensington (1973), pp. 58-76. ,
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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