18, UPPER GROSVENOR STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274907
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 18, UPPER GROSVENOR STREET W1
Statutory Address:: 18, UPPER GROSVENOR STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274907
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 18, UPPER GROSVENOR STREET W1
Statutory Address 1:: 18, UPPER GROSVENOR STREET 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:: 18, UPPER GROSVENOR 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 28110 80654

Details

TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER UPPER GROSVENOR 68/66 STREET, W1 No. 18 G.V. II Terraced town house. c.1732 by Lawrence Neale, carpenter, with alterations and probably heightening by Charles Elliot in 1792-93. Stucco faced, slate roof. 3 storeys and basement with attic storey and dormered mansard. 4 windows wide, the front flanked by rusticated quoins. Entrance in 2nd bay from left with Doric columned portico-porch of c.1793, 6 panel door with segmental fanlight. Recessed sashes under segmental arches, the attic storey with square headed windows in shallow architraves. Cornice over 2nd floor, parapet with coping. Delicate cast iron c.1793 balcony to 1st floor. Wrought iron area railings. Rear elevation has bow added by Elliot. The interior retains of the early C.18 the panelling, modillion cornice and probably original chimneypiece of the front ground floor room,other extensive alterations by Elliot of c.1792-93,mouldings etc, and in particular the double apsed staircase, up to the 2nd floor with stone cantilevered steps and delicately patterned iron balustrade (c.f. same pattern at 66 Grosvenor Street); otherwise principally Edwardian neo-Georgian features. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2811080654

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Legacy System number:: 207334
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Survey of London' in Survey of London - The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 2 The buildings: Volume 40 , , Vol. 40, (1980)

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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.