London House

London House, 32, St James's Square SW1

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1235830
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1970
Statutory Address:
London House, 32, St James's Square SW1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1235830
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1970
Statutory Address 1:
London House, 32, St James's Square SW1

Location

Statutory Address:
London House, 32, St James's Square 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 29588 80359

Details

TQ 2980 SE
82/47

CITY OF WESTMINSTER
ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, SW1
No 32 (London House)

5. 2.70

GV
II*
Terraced town mansion. 1819-21 by S.P and (principally) C.R Cockerell for the Bishop of London, with alterations in 1897 by W.D Caröe and again to the interior in 1932-33 by H.L Anderson. Stock brick with Bath and Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Highly refined neo-classical facade.

Three storeys, basement and dormered mansard. Three windows wide. Entrance to left in Ionic porch with fluted columns in antis added by H.L Anderson; two ground floor windows recessed sashes under flat gauged arches, with stone sills. The piano nobile has three Venetian windows set in large semicircular arched openings in the wall face, the sash lights divided by slender Doric pilasters carrying moulded imposts and the archivolt of centre light, fan shaped lunettes, stone pedestal course broken by stone balconies with Doric column balusters. Second floor has small sashes recessed under gauged flat arches and set on sill course. The front is flanked by brick pilaster and finished off with a stone frieze and boldly profiled cornice, the blocking course broken in front of attic windows by Caröe and elegantly finished with stellae and volute-stops. Cast iron spearhead area railings.

Interiors, altered quite respectfully for club use by H.L Anderson, retain good cornices and friezes, in particular in the first floor rooms with their ceiling borders with intricate fret panels and patterae etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2958880359

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Sources

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

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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