27-35 Portland Place
27-35, Portland Place, W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1227074
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 27-35 Portland Place
- Statutory Address:
- 27-35, Portland Place, W1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1227074
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 27-35 Portland Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27-35, 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:
- 27-35, 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 28754 81731
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/06/2019
TQ 2881 NE
45/53
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
PORTLAND PLACE, W1 (west side)
Nos 27 to 35 (odd)
(Formerly listed as Nos 29 to 35 (odd) (including No 71 New Cavendish Street, formerly No 27, Portland Place))
10.9.54
GV
II*
Large terraced first rate town houses, 1776-c1780 by James Adam, as a speculative development with his brothers and John Elwes on a Portland Estate lease. Stock brick with stucco ground floors; slate roofs. Astylar elevations designed as part of a symmetrical block with Nos 41 to 47 (odd) q.v.
Four storeys (including added attic storeys) on basements. Three window wide fronts and then eight bays, first two blind, in the return to New Cavendish Street with entrance. Broad semicircular arched doorways with panelled double doors, side lights and fanlights above ram's head cornice doorheads; No 35 has mid C19 segmental vaulted covered way on cast iron posts extending to pavement. Entrance on New Cavendish Street has Doric columned stucco porch with dentil cornice and iron balustrade over. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Plat band finishing off ground floor stonework; moulded stucco band over first floor and main cornice over second floor with secondary cornice and blocking course to attic. No 35 has mid C19 barrel-roofed, glazed-in, arcaded verandah and all have cast iron Grecian or mid C19 balconies to first floor. Cast iron area railings with plumbed spike finials.
All retain fine Adam interior features with delicate plaster work and some inset panels and medallions; stone geometrical staircases with wrought iron balustrades; statuary marble chimneypieces etc.
Listing NGR: TQ2875481731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424603
- 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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