26, TREDEGAR SQUARE
26, TREDEGAR SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1242118
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 26, TREDEGAR SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 26, TREDEGAR SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1242118
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 26, TREDEGAR SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, TREDEGAR SQUARE
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:
- 26, TREDEGAR SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3659582806
Details
The following entry shall be added:
TQ 3682
788-/11/261
29/12/50
TREDEGAR SQUARE
(north side)
No. 26
GV
II*
Terraced house. Completed in carcass 1827, interior fitted out in 1836-7. Forms part of an
important terrace with classical stucco treatment, arranged as three linked 3-storey ranges. No.
26 comprises one decorated end of the centrepiece, with Ionic columns in antis under deep
cornice, over rusticated ground floor; a two-storey link building with a round-headed window
between pilasters under a pediment; and the former no. 25 of two bays, that to the right slightly
projecting, and both with round-headed ground-floor windows and first floor architrave
surrounds.
This has always been the largest and grandest house in the terrace, but is remarkable for the
painted decoration in its first floor front room, which consists of a series of painted papers and
panels in the style made popular by J G Crace in the late 1830s but which are now
exceptionally rare, especially in so relatively ordinary a house. Ceiling with stencilled decoration.
Four wall panels flank the entrance and chimney breast opposite, and four the front and rear
windows; the panel above the chimney breast is painted in the same style. They are executed
in a variety of media on paper and board glued to the walls. The four larger panels have a green
border drawn into a shallow arch at the top. By this simple device the panels are given scale and
an almost architectonic quality. Inside this border there is a 'frame' picked out in gold stencil.
At the centre of each arched panel is a roundel depicting putti with various attributes. These
are executed in oil on paper which has been pasted down on top of the painted wall paper. The
roundels are set off by a pair of birds resting on delicate bars of ornament. Floral swags and
naturalistic foliage sit inside this frame. The motifs are various and include ivy branches, bamboo
leaves, acanthus leaves, ribbons, a goldfish bowl, a vase and a pair of birds. The roundels
represent the arts and sciences. The quality of execution is high throughout and in places
brilliant.
Listing NGR: TQ3659582806
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441470
- 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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