Corner House
11, COWLEY STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288975
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Corner House
- Statutory Address:
- 11, COWLEY STREET SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288975
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Corner House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 11, COWLEY STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- 8, LITTLE COLLEGE STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 3:
- CORNER HOUSE, GREAT PETER STREET SW1
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:
- 11, COWLEY STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- 8, LITTLE COLLEGE STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- CORNER HOUSE, GREAT PETER 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 30118 79233
Details
TQ 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT PETER STREET, 101/47 SWl Corner House (Including No. 11 Cowley Street and 8 Little College Street) G.V. II A pair of town houses on corner site. 1911 by Edwin Lutyens for Lady Norman and Hon. F. Maclaren. Fine red brick with sparing Portland stone dressings, tiled roof. Restrained neo-Georgian, carefully proportioned but with the windows scaled up. 3 storeys and 2 tiers of dormers in steep mansard. 9 windows wide with 4-window return to Little College Street and 3-window return to Cowley Street with lower 2 storey rear portion to north. Doorways almost adjoining to centre of Great Peter Street front, stone architraves with plain keyblocks and cornices over. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches. Stone plinth. Prominent stone eaves cornice; close set sashed dormers with flat lead roofs and cheeks. The pair holds an important site in relation to Cowley Street.
Listing NGR: TQ3011979238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209893
- 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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