STEPS AND PARAPETS WITH LAMPS AT WEST END

STEPS AND PARAPETS WITH LAMPS AT WEST END, KING CHARLES STREET SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1275191
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: STEPS AND PARAPETS WITH LAMPS AT WEST END
Statutory Address:: STEPS AND PARAPETS WITH LAMPS AT WEST END, KING CHARLES STREET SW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1275191
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: STEPS AND PARAPETS WITH LAMPS AT WEST END
Statutory Address 1:: STEPS AND PARAPETS WITH LAMPS AT WEST END, KING CHARLES STREET SW1

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STEPS AND PARAPETS WITH LAMPS AT WEST END, KING CHARLES STREET SW1

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 29940 79811

Details

TQ 2979 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER KING CHARLES STREET, SWL 91/5 Steps and parapets with lamps at west end G.V. II Steps with flanking parapets surmounted by lamps terminating west end of street and leading down to St James's Park. c1873 part of Sir George Gilbert Scott's Foreign Office, Whitehall, q.v., but as they associate with the Park, composition may be by Mathew Digby Wyatt. Broad York stone flight of steps with landing, flanked by Portland stone parapets; the latter have highly ornate pierced scrollwork Italianate carving beneath the coping; dies surmounted by ornamental wrought iron lamps.

Listing NGR: TQ2994379811

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Legacy System number:: 413122
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.