26-30, PORTLAND PLACE W1
26-30, PORTLAND PLACE W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1227024
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 26-30, PORTLAND PLACE W1
- Statutory Address:
- 26-30, PORTLAND PLACE W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1227024
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 26-30, PORTLAND PLACE W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26-30, PORTLAND PLACE 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:
- 26-30, 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 28850 81690
Details
TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTLAND PLACE, Wl 45/73 (east side) 10.9.54 Nos. 26 to 30 (even) G.V. II* Large terraced 1st rate town houses. c.1776-1780 by James Adam, as a speculative development in association with his brothers and John Elwes on a Portland Estate lease. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floor; slate roof. Built as a symmetrical block with No. 32 q.v., the central house No. 28 emphasised by a giant pilaster order, the rest with astylar elevations. 4 storeys (including added attic storey) on basements. 3-window wide fronts. Broad semicircular arched doorways to left (right on No. 26), No. 28 with fluted Doric columned porch added; double panelled doors, side lights with panelled dividers, frieze with rams' heads carrying cornice doorhead and fanlight overall, No. 28 with Ionic columned inscribed Venetian composition of door, side lights and fanlight. Recessed sashes under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Plat band finishing off stuccowork at 1st floor; Nos. 26 and 30 with moulded stucco cornice over 1st floor and stucco entablature and balustrade over 2nd floor; No. 28 with giant stucco Ionic pilasters through 1st and 2nd floors and attic storey divided by pilaster strips and surmounted by shallow pediment. 1st floor geometric patterned cast iron balconies. Urn and plumbed spike finialed area railings. Good Adam interior features particularly in No. 28, friezes and ceiling with delicate plasterwork, stone geometrical staircases with wrought iron balustrades, statuary marble chimneypieces, etc.
Listing NGR: TQ2885081690
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424542
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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