Royal Academy of Music
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, MARYLEBONE ROAD W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239816
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Academy of Music
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, MARYLEBONE ROAD W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239816
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Academy of Music
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, MARYLEBONE ROAD 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:
- ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, MARYLEBONE ROAD 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 28326 82127
Details
TQ 2882 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MARYLEBONE ROAD, W1 35/37 (North side)
2.10.87 Royal Academy of Music
II
Academy. 1910-11 by Sir Ernest George and Alfred B Yeates. Red brick with generous stone dressings, channelled stone ground floor and stone faced centrepiece; slate roofs. Large symmetrical composition with centre block and projecting wings designed as a scaled up free version of an English baroque country house. 5 storey and basement centre block with dormers in steeply hipped roof and wings with podium-ground floor and double height upper storey. Centre block 6 windows wide with 2-window centrepiece and 3-bay wings. Ground floor of centrepiece built out to form large porch with semicircular arched keystoned entrance and 1st floor sill band carried over as cornice. Recessed glazing bar casements, semicircular arched with keystones on ground floor; the 1st to 3rd floor windows vertically linked by stone architraves and aprons with bold segmental pediments over those on 2nd floor to flanking bays and triangular pediments in centrepiece; attic storey with segmented arched windows in centrepiece and stone framed corniced and keyed oeils-de-boeuf in flanking bays. Rusticated quoins; centrepiece main floors flanked by giant Ionic pilasters rising to deep entablature carried across block and returned to sides and attic eaves cornice with bold segmental pediment on consoles over centrepiece containing oeil-de-boeuf framed by 2 large reclining figures. Casemented dormers and symmetrically grouped lofty stone banded and corniced arch panelled chimney stacks. The wings balance but differ slightly; left hand one with central, vertically linked stone architraves, 1st floor window and 2nd floor console pedimented half dormer, flanking carved panels; the right hand wing (housing Duke's Hall) with advanced quoined and pedimented centrepiece with semicircular arched windows; both wings have angle quoins, vases on parapets and steep, almost pyramidal slate roofs with same tall chimney stacks as main block, to flanks.
Listing NGR: TQ2832682127
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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