24, KENSINGTON PALACE W8
24, KENSINGTON PALACE W8
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1266930
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 24, KENSINGTON PALACE W8
- Statutory Address:
- 24, KENSINGTON PALACE W8
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1266930
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 24, KENSINGTON PALACE W8
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24, KENSINGTON PALACE W8
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:
- 24, KENSINGTON PALACE 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 25522 80432
Details
TQ 2580 SE KENSINGTON PALACE GARDENS W8 26/1 (west side)
15.4.69 No 24
GV II*
Mansion. 1845-circa 1849. Owen Jones. Faced in stucco. Indian style enrichments. Three storeys. Seven windows wide. Skyline crowned with onion domes. Open fretwork parapet. Ground floor has arched window openings with recessed frames with semi-circular heads. Above are semi-vaults enriched with lotus leaf patterns supporting a balcony on first floor. First floor windows similar to ground floor though smaller. Second floor has arcade, with alternate arches blind and glazed. Iron tracery. Ogee domes to chimneys. Interior not seen. Survey of London, Vol 37.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420162
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - Northern Kensington: Volume 37, Vol. 37, (1973)
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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