75, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
75, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236476
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 75, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 75, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236476
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 75, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 75, 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:
- 75, 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 28395 80395
Details
TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOUTH AUDLEY 79/27 STREET, Wl 14.8.70 No. 75 G.V. II Formerly Bute House. Terraced town mansion. 1736-38 origin. Built as three houses by Edward Shepherd, made one as Bute House 1774-76 by "Capability" Brown and Henry Holland,and alterations, possibly by Robert Mylne, c.1802; refronted 1907 by C.J. Corblet; grand interior refurbishment for Legation in 1927 by Fern and Billerey. Portland stone front, stucco return and rear, slate roof. 1907 "Palladian" elevation but retains late C.18/early C.19 full height bows to rear. 2 storeys and basement and attic storey. 7 windows wide. Entrance in 3rd bay from right with engaged Corinthian columns, entablature and pediment. Architraved windows, with pediments to majority on ground floor and with elaborated architrave with open scrolled pediment above doorway, unequally articulated through ground and 1st floors by giant order of Roman Ionic pilasters rising from rusticated basement to main entablature with modillion cornice. Attic with enriched pilaster strips in line with giant order and balustraded crowning parapet. The bows to rear retain recessed glazing bar sashes. Cast iron C.18 style area railings with urn finials. Finely executed interior in French Louis XVI and English C.18 taste retaining elements of previous decorations, including late C.18 chimney pieces of statuary marble, painted "grotesques" some of which date back to the Bute family's occupation, painted friezes and ceiling panels (roundels in ceiling of north room of 1st floor suite are reset Tiepolo canvases; the main ceiling panel "Allegory of Venus and Time" now in National Gallery - introduced in 1876). Survey of London; Vol XL.
Listing NGR: TQ2839580395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427473
- 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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