23, SOUTH STREET W1
23, SOUTH STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236367
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 23, SOUTH STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 23, SOUTH STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236367
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 23, SOUTH STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, SOUTH 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:
- 23, SOUTH 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 28349 80451
Details
TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOUTH STREET, Wl 79/12 (north side) 5.2.70 No. 23 G.V. II Terraced house on corner and part of Balfour Mews development. 1898-99 by Balfour and Turner with addition of shallow projecting 2 storey entrance bay in 1913 approved by Thackeray Turner, to make No. 23 properly a "mews house". Fine quality red brick with stone dressings, tiled roof, in Balfour and Turner restrained late Queen Anne Arts and Crafts idiom. 2 storeys,basement and dormered attic. Irregular front with shallow parapeted entrance bay next to corner with rusticated pilastered doorway flanked by high set small segmental arched flush framed windows and with one flush framed glazing bar sash window to 1st floor. Recessed right hand part has 3 closely set flush framed glazing bar sashes with segmental arches on ground floor, flat arches on 1st floor. Deep bracketed stone eaves cornice, 2 large gabled dormers. Gabled return to mews with brown glazed brick ground floor and 3 light windows under segmental arches with rusticated dressings to reveals. Tall panelled brick and stone chimney stacks. Arts and Crafts ironwork to area-railings. Part of Balfour and Turner's redevelopment of this part of the Estate. See also Nos. 3 and 4 Aldford Street and Balfour Mews. Survey of London; Vol. XL.
Listing NGR: TQ2834980451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427335
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 2 The buildings: Volume 40 , Vol. 40, (1980)
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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