23, NASSAU STREET W1
23, NASSAU STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266862
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 23, NASSAU STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- 23, NASSAU STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266862
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 23, NASSAU STREET W1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, NASSAU STREET 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:
- 23, NASSAU STREET 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 29223 81607
Details
TQ 2981 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER NASSAU STREET W1 (west side)
46/25 No 23 10.9.54 - II
Terrace house. c1770-80. Brown brick with rusticated stucco ground floor, slate roof. 4 storeys. 3 windows wide. Entrance to left with fine wooden doorcase of engaged Doric columns, triglyph dosserets and mutule pediment, framing 6-panel door with fanlight; rustication struck to ground floor flat window arches. Upper floors have recessed sashes, no glazing bars, under flat gauged arches. Parapet with coping. Interior has plain panelled ground and 1st floor front rooms with fluted friezes and sharply profiled cornices; geometrical staircase with enriched S pattern wrought iron balusters, etc ... No 23 was the residence of James Rennell, geographer, in 1792 (GLC plaque). The doorcase, of superior quality in its proportions, would seem to relate to the, now demolished, contemporary houses by Chambers in Berners Street.
Listing NGR: TQ2922381607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419439
- 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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