74, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
74, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236474
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 74, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 74, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236474
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 74, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 74, SOUTH AUDLEY 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:
- 74, SOUTH AUDLEY 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 28389 80416
Details
TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOUTH AUDLEY 79/23 STREET, Wl 30.3.17 No. 74 G.V. II* Terraced town house. 1736 by Edward Shepherd, alterations in 1830s and 1880s and refronting by Balfour and Turner in 1908. Portland stone, slate roof. Subtle reworking of Georgian elevational theme but with distinctive Balfour and Turner Arts and Crafts details. 3 storeys, basement and attic storey. 3 windows wide but the front composed in two parts. The right hand part, slightly recessed, has prominent square pier porch to right and ground floor window flanked by pilasters; 2 windows on 1st floor segmental arched and recessed for one order with eyebrowed cornices, plain recessed lintelled sashes above. The left hand part, one window wide, has tripartite windows of Venetian derivation to ground and 1st floors, the ground floor one altered to entrance. Both parts of front are articulated by giant Doric pilasters through 1st and 2nd floors carrying entablature across front, attic with balustraded parapet. Continuous wrought iron balcony to 1st floor carried out over porch. Interior, its plan interlocking with No. 75, retaining exceptional plasterwork ceilings of c.1740, 4 on the ground floor and 2 on 1st floor, several deeply coved and of particular note that in rear left ground floor room and the ceiling and upper walls of the stair compartment (the stairs proper Edwardian) - all work by Shepherd. From 1747 to 1829 this house was the Portuguese Embassy. Survey of London; Vol. XL.
Listing NGR: TQ2838980416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427422
- 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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