33, ST JAMES'S SQUARE SW1, 31 AND 32, CHARLES II STREET SW1
31 AND 32, CHARLES II STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1235831
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 33, ST JAMES'S SQUARE SW1, 31 AND 32, CHARLES II STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- 31 AND 32, CHARLES II STREET SW1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1235831
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 33, ST JAMES'S SQUARE SW1, 31 AND 32, CHARLES II STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31 AND 32, CHARLES II STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- 33, ST JAMES'S SQUARE SW1
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:
- 31 AND 32, CHARLES II STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- 33, 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 29587 80375
Details
TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, 82/32 SW1 5.2-70 No 33 (including Nos 31 and 32 Charles II Street) G.V. II* Terraced town mansion on corner site. 1770-72 by Robert Adam and retaining part of his interiors, with eastern extension/rebuilding along Charles II Street by Sir John Soane 1817-23, C.19 heightening, and alterations for club and offices in 1911 by Edmerton and Gabriel. Brown brick with 1911 stone facing to ground floor. Astylar facades. 3 storeys and (C.19) attic storey, basement and dormered mansard. 4 windows wide with 11-window return to Charles II Street (the 5 to east Soane's addition). 2-bay Ionic columned portico (1911) to right facing St. James's Square and 3 equally spaced and of same design but of 3 bays to Charles II Street. Recessed glazing bar sashes, those on upper floors under flat gauged arches. Continuous stone balustraded balcony to 1st floor carried over porticoes; guilloche plat band to 2nd floor, stone main cornice over 3rd floor and stone dentil cornice below parapet. Soane addition to the return has a 3 bay composition of narrow windows flanking a wide one, articulated by brick pilaster strips but otherwise respecting Adam's "ordonnance"; the end bay contains a high carriage-archway formerly giving access to the Bishop of London's stables behind No. 32. Cast iron area railings. Despite the alterations to the interior the principal Adam features of the 1st floor rooms are intact with fine delicate ceilings (3 authenticated by drawings in the Soane Museum) and friezes, doorcases, chimneypieces, the apsed end former dressing-room etc, but very little remains of Soane's work. Survey of London; VOL. XXIX.
Listing NGR: TQ2958780375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426692
- 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. 29, (1960)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
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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