11 AND 12, KENSINGTON SQUARE W8

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266848
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:: 11 AND 12, KENSINGTON SQUARE W8
Statutory Address:: 11 AND 12, KENSINGTON SQUARE W8

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266848
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:: 11 AND 12, KENSINGTON SQUARE W8
Statutory Address 1:: 11 AND 12, KENSINGTON SQUARE W8

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 11 AND 12, KENSINGTON SQUARE W8

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 25795 79485

Details

TQ 2579 SE KENSINGTON SQUARE W8 37/1 (south side)

29.7.49 Nos 11 and 12

GV II

Very fine pair of houses, probably originally one house. Circa 1700. Each 3 storey 3 window and one pedimented dormer. Brown brick red dressings. Painted brick bands between storeys. Modillion eaves cornice. Flush framed windows with C19 stucco architraves. Ground floors now stuccoed. Carved segmental hoods to doors (that to No 12 is a copy, and that to No 11, the original, is slightly cut into on left by projecting screen wall. Interior panelling. (R.C.H.C. p 78). The most important houses in the square, though they are virtually in Thackeray Street.

Listing NGR: TQ2579579485

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Inventory of the historical monuments in London Volume 2 West London excluding Westminster Abbey, (1925)

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