Orleans House the Octagon Room and Service Wing Adjoining
ORLEANS HOUSE THE OCTAGON ROOM AND SERVICE WING ADJOINING, RIVERSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1250280
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Orleans House the Octagon Room and Service Wing Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- ORLEANS HOUSE THE OCTAGON ROOM AND SERVICE WING ADJOINING, RIVERSIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1250280
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Orleans House the Octagon Room and Service Wing Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORLEANS HOUSE THE OCTAGON ROOM AND SERVICE WING ADJOINING, RIVERSIDE
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:
- ORLEANS HOUSE THE OCTAGON ROOM AND SERVICE WING ADJOINING, RIVERSIDE
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:
- TQ1690673379
Details
In the entry for 21/58 RIVERSIDE
Orleans House The Octagon Room and Service Wing adjoining The grade shall be mended to read I
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1. 5028 RIVERSIDE
Orleans House The Octagon Room and service wing adjoining TQ 1673 21/58 2.9.52
II
2. All that survives of Orleans House is the Octagon Room (with its adjoining service wing); the rest having been demolished in 1927. Orleans House was built in 1710 for James Johnston, Queen Anne's Secretary of State for Scotland. Louis Philippe lived here 1800-14 and 1815-17. In 1720 Johnston employed James Gibbs to add the Octagon for the entertainment of Queen Caroline (George II's wide). Red brick with stone dressings and rubbed brick pilasters at the angles. Large round-arched windows with blocked surrounds and round windows above. Fine Roman baroque interior with plaster figures on pediments of fireplace and doors and busts in round niches above by G Artan and J Bagutti. Illustrated in Gibb's 'Book of Architecture', plate 71. Service wing is a long 2-storey brick range adjoining the Octagon to the west. Door with pediment and rusticated surround. Also to the north a re-built 2-storey wing.
Listing NGR: TQ1687473348
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432569
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gibbs, J, Book of Architecture, (1728), 71
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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