75-83, Duke Street

75- 83, Duke Street W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290247
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: 75-83, Duke Street
Statutory Address:: 75- 83, Duke Street W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290247
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: 75-83, Duke Street
Statutory Address 1:: 75- 83, Duke 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:: 75- 83, Duke 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 28427 80977

Details

TQ 2880 NW 68/6

CITY OF WESTMINSTER DUKE STREET, W1 Nos 75 to 83 (odd)

14.1.70 GV II Terrace of purpose designed shops and flats. 1893-95 by W.D Caröe. Thin red bricks with moulded and carved brick dressings and Portland stone plinth, tiled roof. Effectively composed Free Style design with restrained use of Mannerist Carolean and Queen Anne details.

Three storeys, basement and high mansard with two tiers of attics. Five asymmetrical bays wide. Ground floor has irregularly arcaded shop fronts and doorways; off centre entrance to flats with a pair of lights, above brick door cornice, flanked by panelled brick pilasters and brick pediment over; shop fronts with transomed windows, two with segmental brick arches above ground floor cornice; No. 83 with corner entrance set behind stone column supporting upper floors to corner with elongated consoles. Upper floors have main window bays either flanked by panelled brick pilasters or as very shallow vertically linked rectangular bays with cornices and off centre brick pilastered niches, mullioned and transomed casements. Window bays carried up as corniced brick dormers and segmental pedimental dormers in upper tier. South return has large arch at upper level with pyramid roofed attic above, its windows divided by colonettes, and flanking square topped pavilions. Tall brick chimney stacks. Effective group with No. 85 and Nos. 1, 1A and 2 Dukes's Yard q.v.

Listing NGR: TQ2842780980

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Legacy System number:: 209545
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)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.