24-26, MONTAGU SQUARE W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267407
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 24-26, MONTAGU SQUARE W1
Statutory Address:: 24-26, MONTAGU SQUARE W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267407
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 24-26, MONTAGU SQUARE W1
Statutory Address 1:: 24-26, MONTAGU SQUARE W1

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:: 24-26, MONTAGU SQUARE 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 27816 81571

Details

TQ 2781 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER MONTAGU SQUARE, W1 43/94 (East side)

Nos. 24 to 26 (consec.)

G.V. II

Terraced town houses. c.1810-11 (with some mid C.19, and in the case of No. 24 early C.20, alterations), by J.T. Parkinson as part of his Montagu-Bryanston Square development for the Portman Estate. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floor; slate roofs concealed except for No. 25. Five storeys, No. 25 with dormered mansard, on basements: 3-window wide fronts. Semicircular arched doorways and fanlights. 2-window segmental bows (3-window bow to No. 24) to ground floors; above them, on Nos. 25 and 26, rise mid C.19 2-storey canted stucco bays finished off with cornices and balustrade (No. 25) or blocking course (No. 26); No. 24 has early C.20 brown stone, 2 storeyed canted bay with Ionic columns on 1st floor and balustrade above 2nd floor; otherwise recessed sashes under flat gauged arches. Plat band finishing off ground floor stuccowork. Crowning stucco cornice and blocking course. Continuous, cast iron, lattice patterned balconies to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with acorn finials. No. 24 has c.1905 interior by Romaine-Walker in elegant and accomplished Louis XVI and Adam revival styles, contemporary with the stone bay on 1st and 2nd floors.

Listing NGR: TQ2781681571

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Legacy System number:: 418812
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.