41-47, PORTLAND PLACE W1
41-47, PORTLAND PLACE W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1265549
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 41-47, PORTLAND PLACE W1
- Statutory Address:
- 41-47, PORTLAND PLACE W1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1265549
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 41-47, PORTLAND PLACE W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 41-47, PORTLAND PLACE 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:
- 41-47, PORTLAND PLACE 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 28738 81833
Details
CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTLAND PLACE,Wl TQ 2881 NE 45/40 (west side) Nos 41 to 47 (odd) 10.9.54 G.V. II* Large terraced 1st rate town houses. 1776-c1780 by James Adam, as a speculative development with his brothers and John Elwes. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors; slate roofs. Astylar elevations designed as part of a symmetrical block with Nos 29 to 35 (odd) q.v. of which the centrepiece has been rebuilt. 4 storeys including added attic storey (that of No 47 further heightened) on basements. 3-window wide fronts, No 47 with long return to Weymouth Street. Broad semicircular arched doorways adjoining to each pair; panelled double doors, side lights in pannelled and enriched jambs with ram's head cornice doorheads and fanlight overall. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Plat band finishing off ground floor stuccowork; moulded stucco band over 1st floor and main cornice over 2nd floor; attic cornice and blocking course, No 43 with balustraded parapet. Continuous cast iron Grecian and scrolled balconies to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with urn or plumbed spike finials. Nos 43 and 45 retain interiors with fine Adam features, delicate plasterwork, some inset panels and medallions, statuary marble chimneypieces; stone geometrical staircases with wrought or cast iron anthemion and panel balustrades; etc. No 47 has LCC plaque commemorating residence of Field Marshal Lord Roberts from 1901 to 1906.
Listing NGR: TQ2873881833
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424604
- 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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