2 and 3, St James's Place

2 and 3, St James's Place, SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1235672
Date first listed:: 20-May-1969
List Entry Name:: 2 and 3, St James's Place
Statutory Address:: 2 and 3, St James's Place, SW1

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Date:: 2001-09-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1235672
Date first listed:: 20-May-1969
List Entry Name:: 2 and 3, St James's Place
Statutory Address 1:: 2 and 3, St James's Place, 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:: 2 and 3, St James's Place, 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 29227 80201

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 19 March 2025 to amend the description and reformat the text to current standards.

TQ 2980 SW 81/77

CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST JAMES'S PLACE SW1 Nos 2 and 3

20.5.69

GV II Terrace houses. Part of c.1685 row. Brown brick originally, stuccoed early C19, slate roof. Four storeys and dormered mansard. Each front three windows wide. Square headed doorway to right with rectangular fanlight, six-panel door. Nearly flush framed sash windows, no glazing bars, slightly cambered heads. Bands between storeys and parapet with coping. Cast iron balconies to first floor.

Interior has some of original panelling and box cornices to ground and 1st floors; dog leg, closed string, turned baluster staircase.

There is a wall-mounted Windsor gas lantern to the front elevation between Numbers 2 and 3. This had been installed by 1977 as it can be seen in a photograph of that date held by the London Picture Archive.

Listing NGR: TQ2922780206

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Legacy System number:: 426477
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Survey of London' in The Parish of St James Westminster Part 1 South of Piccadilly: Volumes 29 and 30, , Vol. 30, (1960)

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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.