8, STANHOPE PLACE W2
8, STANHOPE PLACE W2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236642
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 8, STANHOPE PLACE W2
- Statutory Address:
- 8, STANHOPE PLACE W2
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236642
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 8, STANHOPE PLACE W2
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, STANHOPE PLACE W2
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:
- 8, STANHOPE PLACE W2
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 27544 81019
Details
TQ 2781 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER STANHOPE PLACE, W2 54/85 10.4.75 No. 8 G.V. II Terraced house. c.1830, part of the first phase of the Tyburnia development. Stuccoed with channelled ground floor; concealed slate roof. 2 storeys and basement (rather than the usual 3 or 4 storeys) with lofty 1st floor. Semicircular arched doorway to right with later door and plain fanlight. Recessed, square headed, glazing bar sashes. Plat band over ground floor. Crowning cornice and stucco balustrade of enriched interlace loop pattern. Delicate cast iron Gothick pattern balcony to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. Tyburnia was developed on the Bishop of London's Estate, planned in 1827 by S.P. Cockerell but laid out to modified plan by his successor George Gutch. "The History of Tyburnia"; Gordon Toplis in Country Life, 15,22 Nov. 1973.
Listing NGR: TQ2754481019
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427683
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1973)
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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