Stanley House

Stanley House, 550 Kings Road, London, SW10 0UA

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1266547
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: Stanley House
Statutory Address:: Stanley House, 550 Kings Road, London, SW10 0UA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1266547
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: Stanley House
Statutory Address 1:: Stanley House, 550 Kings Road, London, SW10 0UA

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Stanley House, 550 Kings Road, London, SW10 0UA

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 26084 77328

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/09/2014

TQ 2677 SW 67/3

KING'S ROAD, SW10, No. 550 (Stanley House)

(Formerly listed as Principal's House College of St Mark and St John, KING'S ROAD (north side), SW3)

24.6.54

GV II*

Substantial house. Circa 1691, with later alterations and additions. Basement and pedimented dormers. Five windows. Brick. Red brick pier projections to sides and red brick band first floor. Wood block bracketed caves cornice below slate roof. Red gauged flat arches and dressings to windows. Stone surround to entrance. Rear elevation similar but former doorway (now window) has stone arhitrave, consoles, pulvinated frieze and moulded head. Two storeys, later brick extension on north-east side, with one storey stone loggia with square columns, contains first casts taken of the Elgin Marbles. (R.C.H.M. and Survey of London, Vol IV).

Listing NGR: TQ2608477328

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Legacy System number:: 421295
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Survey of London' in The Parish of Chelsea Part 2: Volume 4, , Vol. 4, (1913)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.