56 AND 58, PORTLAND PLACE W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1227040
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: 56 AND 58, PORTLAND PLACE W1
Statutory Address:: 56 AND 58, PORTLAND PLACE W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1227040
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: 56 AND 58, PORTLAND PLACE W1
Statutory Address 1:: 56 AND 58, 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:: 56 AND 58, 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 28802 81843

Details

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTLAND PLACE, Wl 45/31 (east side) Nos. 56 and 58 10.9.54 G.V. II* Large terraced 1st rate town houses. 1776-c.1780 by James Adam, as a speculative development with his brothers and John Elwes on a Portland Estate lease. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors; slate roofs. Astylar elevations built as part of the same symmetrical block as Nos. 34 to 52 (even) q.v. 4 storeys (including added attic storey), No. 56 with dormered mansard, on basements. 3-window wide fronts. Semicircular arched doorways to right and left; double panelled doors with columned side lights, cornice-doorheads and fanlights, No. 56 retaining original delicate radial swag pattern. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Plat band finishes off ground floor stuccowork. Moulded stucco band over 1st floor and main entablature over 2nd floor; attic cornice and blocking course. Continuous early C.19 cast iron balconies to 1st floor. Cast iron urn finialed area railings. No. 56 retains some good Adam interior features with stone geometrical staircase with wrought iron balustrade, delicate plasterwork and inlaid marble chimneypieces, etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2880281843

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.