44 AND 45, MEDWAY STREET

44 AND 45, MEDWAY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1237537
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1989
List Entry Name:
44 AND 45, MEDWAY STREET
Statutory Address:
44 AND 45, MEDWAY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1237537
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1989
List Entry Name:
44 AND 45, MEDWAY STREET
Statutory Address 1:
44 AND 45, MEDWAY STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
44 AND 45, MEDWAY STREET

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 29726 79029

Details

MEDWAY STREET TQ2979 SE 100/102 Nos 44 and 45 II GV Two houses c.1815-20. Flemish bond brick; slate mansard roofs; brick end stacks. Each house of double-depth plan and of 3 storey and basement, one-window range. No.45 (to right) has semi-circular arch over early C19 6-panelled door and segmental arches over late C 19 four-pane sash to ground floor and early C19 sixteen-pane sashes above; No.44 has semi-circular arches over late C19 bolection-panelled door and early C19 sash with glazing bars (radiating bars to head removed), and gauged brick flat arches over early C19 sixteen-pane sashes above; brick and stone-coped parapet. Early C19 sashes to rear of No.44. Interior: No.45 has early C19 dog-leg staircase with stick balusters set on closed string; ground-floor room to front has early C19 Fireplace with fine c.1872-80 Minton tiles; panelled partition to second floor. No. 44 has similar early Cl9 staircase; ground-floor rooms have early c19 fireplace with sunk roundels, moulded cornices with fascias and roll mouldings and vertically-sliding panelled shutters set in moulded wood architraves; early C19 fireplace and simple cornices to first and second floors. The interior is notable for the retention of rare vernacular-derived plank and stud partitions with panelled dados which divide ground floor rooms from entrance passage; similar partitions divide off first and second floor rooms.

Listing NGR: TQ2972979027

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
428857
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.

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