Chandos House
CHANDOS HOUSE, 2, QUEEN ANNE STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1227332
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Chandos House
- Statutory Address:
- CHANDOS HOUSE, 2, QUEEN ANNE STREET W1
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- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1227332
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Chandos House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHANDOS HOUSE, 2, QUEEN ANNE STREET 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:
- CHANDOS HOUSE, 2, QUEEN ANNE STREET 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 28796 81589
Details
TQ 2881 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER QUEEN ANNE STREET, Wl 45/104 (north side) 10.9.54 No 2: (Chandos House) G.V. I Grand terraced town house. 1769-71 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Duke of Chandos, on a Portland Estate lease. Ashlar faced; slate roof. Fine surviving example of Adam's town house planning on a conventional plot with a long rear wing to left extending the sequence of state rooms beyond the principal and secondary stairwells, similar in layout to No 17 Hill Street q.v. and the demolished Derby House, Grosvenor Square. 3 tall storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 4 windows wide. Entrance in 2nd bay from left with projecting stone porch with fluted Roman Doric columns and festooned bucrania frieze below cornice and blocking course; semicircular arched doorway with double panelled door in panelled reveals and delicately patterned radial fanlight. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat voussoir lintels. 1st floor plat band and sill band; Vitruvian scroll enriched band between 1st and 2nd floors; crowning cornice and blocking course. Fine original wrought iron railings incorporating lamp standards. Very fine intact Adam interior with varied modelling of wall planes, column screens, niches, bow ended rooms to rear; square-well main staircase between hall and wing axis with stone steps and fine Adam detailing to wrought iron balustrade; very delicate plasterwork with repertoire of grotesque and arabesque motifs, fanned patterns to ceilings and inset painted panels, statuary marble chimneypieces, mahogany doors and their chased furniture; etc. The Architecture of Robert and James Adam; A T Bolton The Decorative Work of Robert Adam; Damie Stillman
Listing NGR: TQ2879681589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425063
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stillman, D, The Decorative Work of Robert Adam, ()
Bolton, A T, The Architecture of Robert and James Adam 1758-94, (1922)
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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