47, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1
47, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1265868
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 47, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- 47, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1265868
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 47, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 47, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1
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:
- 47, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1
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 30187 79771
Details
TQ 3079 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENT STREET, SWl 92/24 (east side) 5.2.70 No 47 G.V. II* End of terrace former clubhouse. 1864-66 by C O Parnell,built as the Whitehall Club. Portland stone, slate roof. "Florid Italian" (sic definition of the period) palazzo, in richly modelled and carved C16 Venetian manner. 3 tall storeys with attic storey in frieze, raised on basement. 3-window wide front, 3 groups of windows to Derby Gate return and 4-window wide rear. Rusticated elevations with entrance in centre of Derby Gate return; archivolt arched portal rising through basement and ground floor with much relief carving above and flanked on ground floor level by pairs of Ionic pilasters. The ground floor windows either side treated as Venetian windows set in shallow panels flanked by Ionic pilasters and with carved spandrels. To Parliament Street the ground floor windows have pilastered jambs and archivolt arches whilst the 1st floor windows are architraved with pediments on consoles, framed on the ground floor by an engaged coupled column Ionic order and on the 1st floor by a Corinthian engaged order. The lst floor to Derby Gate has tripartite architraved windows with segmental pediments over centre lights set in shallow panels framed by Corinthian pilaster order. 2nd floor windows architraved with cornices on consoles. Oval attic windows set in frieze below cornice. Plat band over basement, ground floor entablature broken forward over capitals and with engaged urns to corners; 2nd floor entablature confined to window bays; deep and richly carved frieze beneath the crowning, enriched, modillion cornice; stone "Venetian" chimney stacks above corners. Parnell was also architect of the equally rich Italianate Army and Navy Club since demolished.
Listing NGR: TQ3018779771
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423725
- 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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