42 AND 44, HILL STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231091
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 42 AND 44, HILL STREET W1
Statutory Address:: 42 AND 44, HILL STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231091
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 42 AND 44, HILL STREET W1
Statutory Address 1:: 42 AND 44, HILL STREET 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:: 42 AND 44, HILL 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 28491 80418

Details

TQ 2880 SW and SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HILL STREET W1 79/1, 80/13 (north west side) Nos 42 and 44 - II Town mansion. 1919 by W Ernest Lord and Mewes and Davis for first Viscount Furness (rebuilding delayed by the First World War). Hand made red brick, sparse stone dressings, slate roof. Neo Georgian facade with 50 ft frontage. Glazing bar sashes, wrought iron balconies. Garden front symmetrical with full height central bow. Grand interior almost certainly the contribution of Mewes and Davis: entrance hall lined with polished stone; staircase with Tijou-style wrought iron balustrade. Ground floor room (originally the library) with carved oak panelling and built in bookcases. Two large first floor rooms, one with early Georgian-style pine panelling and one with reset French boiseries and marble chimneypieces; etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2849180418

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Legacy System number:: 210193
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.