5-13, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1227241
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: 5-13, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE SW1
Statutory Address:: 5-13, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1227241
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: 5-13, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE SW1
Statutory Address 1:: 5-13, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE SW1

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:: 5-13, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE SW1

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 29701 79598

Details

In the entry for:- TQ 2979 NE QUEEN ANNE'S GATE 91/39 Nos 5 to 13 (odd) 24.2.58 GV I The description shall be amended to read: Group of 5 terraced houses, built in 1770-71, by Thomas Clark bricklayer, Emanuel Crouch, probable architect. Brown brick, slate roofs. 4 full storeys and basements, each house three windows wide. Doorways to left approached by short flights of steps, recessed panelled doors and patterned fanlights in wood doorcases (some with panelled reveals and soffits) with doric pilasters, dosserets with mutule cornices and open pediments, apart from No 13 which has stucco surround with architraves, console and cornice. Recessed glazing bar sashes with stuccoed reveals under flat brick arches, the arches and jambs now painted red. Brick plat band over 2nd floor; parapet with coping. Wrought iron area railings with urn finials. Interiors retain narrow open well cut bracket string stair cases with turned balusters, cornices, dadoes and good original chimneypieces, some with good cast iron basket grates. Portions of Nos. 9-13, which now connect internally, retain unusual fittings and decoration carried out between 1947 and 1960 for Architectural Press under the direction of H.de C. Hastings, notably 'The Bride of Denmark', a sequence of neo-Victorian pub interiors in the basement. In the yard of No.9, a lead water cistern bearing the date 1774 and the initials of Christ's Hospital, the freeholders of the terrace. This part of the street was originally named Park Street and separated by a wall from the western part called Queen Square. Part of an exceptional group of late C18 and Queen Anne houses. Dan Cruickshank and Neil Burton, Life in the Georaian City, 1990, pp.236-254; Architects Journal 2-9 Jan 1991.

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TQ 2979 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, SW1 91/39 24.2.58 Nos 5 to 13 (odd) G.V. I Group of terraced houses. c1773-74 rebuild. Brown brick, slate roofs. 4 storeys and basements. Each 3 windows wide. Doorways to left approached by short flight of steps, recessed panelled doors and patterned fanlights in wood doorcases (some with panelled reveals and soffits) with Doric pilasters, dosserets with mutule cornices and open pediments, apart from No 11 which has stucco surround with architrave, consoles and cornice. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged red brick arches, stuccoed reveals. Brick plat band over 2nd floor; parapet with coping. Wrought iron area railings with urn finials. Interiors retain narrow open well cut bracket string staircases with turned balusters, cornices and some good original chimneypieces, some with good cast iron basket grates. This part of the street was originally named Park Street and separated by a wall from the western part called Queen Square. Part of an exceptional group of late C18 and Queen Anne houses. Survey of London; Vol X R C H M

Listing NGR: TQ2971379585

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Sources

Books and journals
Cruickshank, D, Burton, N, Life in the Georgian City, (1990), 236-254
'Architects Journal' in 9 January, (1991)
'Architects Journal' in 2 January, (1991)

Legal

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