NUMBER 38 INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS AND PAIR OF PIERS

NUMBER 38 INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS AND PAIR OF PIERS, 38, SOUTH STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236368
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 38 INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS AND PAIR OF PIERS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 38 INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS AND PAIR OF PIERS, 38, SOUTH STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236368
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 38 INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS AND PAIR OF PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 38 INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS AND PAIR OF PIERS, 38, SOUTH 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:: NUMBER 38 INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS AND PAIR OF PIERS, 38, 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 28454 80454

Details

TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOUTH STREET, W1 79/60 No 38 including area railings and pair of piers GV II Substantial town mansion. Dated 1920. Wimperis, Simpson and J Murray Easton. Red handmade brick. Portland stone dressings. Steep pantiled mansard to parapet. 2 storeys plus attic plus 2 tiers of dormers, 9 bays. Central entrance in projecting stone faced enclosed porch with Ionic half columns and pilasters and prominent keystone; broken scrolly pediment with dated cartouche set in outer open pediment of painted lead. Panelled door. Giant pilaster strips to corners and between second and third and seventh and eighth bays, rising from ground to first floor and echoed in attic. Square headed windows to ground and first floors, with intermediate circular windows to outer pairs of bays. Windows to attic mainly segmental headed, but circular to third, fifth and seventh bays. Gauged heads; flush frames, glazing bars. Enriched modillion cornice above first floor; parapet; elaborate torch finials above pilasters to parapet. Lower dormers segmental headed, corniced, upper comprising square headed triplets; sashes, glazing bars. Cast and wrought iron area railings with pair of Portland stone piers with pineapple finials to either end. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2845480454

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Legacy System number:: 427336
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.