5, STANHOPE GATE W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236581
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 5, STANHOPE GATE W1
Statutory Address:: 5, STANHOPE GATE W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236581
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 5, STANHOPE GATE W1
Statutory Address 1:: 5, STANHOPE GATE 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:: 5, STANHOPE GATE 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 28400 80236

Details

In the entry for TQ 2880 SW STANHOPE GATE, Wl 79/46 No 5 II GV The description shall be amended to read. Terraced two house. c.1760, refaced and heightened in c.1900-10. Portland stone, slate roof. Louis XV-Louis XVI details. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 4 windows wide. Entrance in 2nd bay from right and portico-porch of coupled Ionic columns. Channelled ground floor with recessed glazing bar sashes, the channelling struck to flat arches. The main 1st and 2nd floors have recessed sashes, those on 1st floor with cornices on consoles, articulated by giant order of fluted Ionic pilasters with wreathed capitals in the transitional Louis XV-Louis XVI manner, supporting deep entablature with modillion cornice over 2nd floor. Attic storey, with windows set in shallow panels, has cornice and blocking course. Cast iron balcony across 1st floor. Cast iron area railings. L.C.C. plaque commemorates residence of FitzRoy Somerset, Lord Raglan (the Crimean War C. in C.). Rebuilt behind facade in 1969-71, and in 1986/7.

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TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER STANHOPE GATE, Wl 79/46 No. 5 G.V. II Terraced town house. c.1760, refaced and heightened inc.1900-10. Portland stone, slate roof. Louis XV-Louis XVI details. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 4 windows wide. Entrance in 2nd bay from right with portico-porch of coupled Ionic columns. Channelled ground floor with recessed glazing bar sashes, the channelling struck to flat arches. The main 1st and 2nd floors have recessed sashes, those on 1st floor with cornices on consoles, articulated by giant order of fluted Ionic pilasters with wreathed capitals in the transitional Louis XV-Louis XVI manner, supporting deep entablature with modillion cornice over 2nd floor. Attic storey, with windows set in shallow panels, has cornice and blocking course. Cast iron balcony across 1st floor. Cast iron area railings. L.C.C. plaque commemorates residence of FitzRoy Somerset, Lord Raglan (the Crimean War C. in C.).

Listing NGR: TQ2839580231

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Legacy System number:: 427607
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.