3 The Terrace
3 The Terrace, 138 Richmond Hill, Richmond, TW10 6RN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1249952
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 3 The Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- 3 The Terrace, 138 Richmond Hill, Richmond, TW10 6RN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1249952
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Apr-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 3 The Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 The Terrace, 138 Richmond Hill, Richmond, TW10 6RN
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:
- 3 The Terrace, 138 Richmond Hill, Richmond, TW10 6RN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Richmond upon Thames (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1834373955
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 March 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 1873
25/1
RICHMOND HILL (east side)
No 138 (3, The Terrace)
(Formerly listed as No. 3, The Terrace)
10.1.50
II*
House. Built 1767 for Christopher Blanchard, possibly to designs of Sir Robert Taylor. Flemish bond brown brick with stone ashlar dressings; slate roof. Central staircase plan. Pedimented Palladian - style front. Three-storey and basement, two-bay range. Cornice over richly-carved frieze and rusticated ground floor with triple keystones set in semi-circular arches over two sash windows to left of panelled door with decorative wrought-ironwork to fanlight. C.20 first floor windows are set in pedimented aedicules with ionic half-columns set on stone podium; C20 second-floor windows set in cored stone architraves. Blind lunette with carved stone palm fronts set in tympanum of open pediment. Fine wrought-iron railings to front. Three-storey canted bay window to rear, with wrought-iron grilles to ground-floor windows and panelled door.
Interior: bolection moulded panels to walls and segmental vaulted ceiling of narrow entrance corridor running to central stairhall, lit by glazed-dome in roof; fine open-well cantilevered staircase with ramped handrail set on decorative wrought-iron balustrade; panelled walls, with profile heads to medallions hung from drapes, wheatear swags hung from drapes beneath enriched egg and dart cornices and coved cornice with floral swags to dome; enriched panelled doors set in fine pedimented architraves to ground and first-floor rooms; roccco plasterwork to swan-necked pediment over enriched plaster architrave to large panel framing medallion on first floor landing. Ground-floor room to front has very fine reset marble fireplace with engaged ionic columns, enriched carving to door and shutter panels, dado rail and skirting, and fire rocco plasterwork to ceiling with coved cornice. Ground-floor room to rear has fine marble fireplace with fluted frieze, panelled walls with finely carved narrow panels alternating with large panels,and fine panelled plasterwork to ceiling with floral swags and coved cornice and rococo centrepiece. similar rococo plaster ceiling to first floor room to front, which also has finely-carved rococo friezes to door architraves, and fine coloured marble fireplace with fluted half-columns. Small closet with panelled corner cupboard opens off first-floor room to rear which has marble fireplace with fine cast-iron grate and panelled plaster ceiling. Second floor room to front has segmental arched alcove framed by Ionic brackets.
Listing NGR: TQ1834373955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432168
- 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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