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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421295
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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