Number 19 and Attached Railings

NUMBER 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, UPPER BROOK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1248458
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
Number 19 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, UPPER BROOK STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1248458
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
Number 19 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, UPPER BROOK 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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, UPPER BROOK 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 28079 80782

Details

TQ 2880 NW UPPER BROOK STREET

68/102 No 19 and attached railings

II GV

Terraced town house, now offices. c1737 but facade remodelled c1865 in style of Thomas Cundy II, top storey added late c1885, porch added and interior remodelled c1903-4 by W H Romaine-Walker and Besant for Arthur W Davis. Grey stock brick with red brick top floor, channelled ashlar ground floor and stone portico and dressings. Slate roof with pedimented dormers. Four storeys; attic and basement. Three windows. Projecting portico with Ionic pilasters linked by a swag flanking a round-arched entrance with keystone; entablature surmounted by a stone balustrade continuing across the first floor windows. Casement windows apart from fourth floor and attic sashes. First floor windows with lugged architraves and pediments; second floor lugged architraves, bracketted sills and continuous sill band; third floor projecting cornice and architraved sashes. Rear elevation with wide bow running through the main storeys. Interior in sumptuous Empire style; high quality workmanship under the supervision of Charles Mellier and Co, using French craftsmen. Features include marble paved entrance hall with elegant cantilevered, curved stair forming diminishing oval well and having cast iron balusters and brass hand rail; lit by circular lantern with plasterwork swags. Stairwell with niche recesses to enriched panelled walls. Good marble fireplaces with brass enrichment throughout. First floor drawing rooms with central marble Ionic screen. Second floor rooms in Beaux-Arts classical idiom. A good example of the arrangement and style of the grander Edwardian town house.

Listing NGR: TQ2807980782

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Legacy System number:
430064
Legacy System:
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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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