The Sanctuary
THE SANCTUARY, 1-8, BROAD SANCTUARY SW1
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291358
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Sanctuary
- Statutory Address:
- THE SANCTUARY, 1-8, BROAD SANCTUARY SW1
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- Date:
- 2001-05-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/03836/23
- Rights:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291358
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Sanctuary
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SANCTUARY, 1-8, BROAD SANCTUARY 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:
- THE SANCTUARY, 1-8, BROAD SANCTUARY 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 29954 79468
Details
TQ 2979 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD SANCTUARY, SW1 100/5 9.1.70 The Sanctuary Nos 1 to 8 (consec)
G.V. II
Terrace of houses incorporating gateway to Dean's Yard. 1853-54 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Bath stone with gault brick and stone to Dean's Yard, slate roofs. Gothic with some early Tudor features, a carefully asymmetrical composition about the formal gatehouse with lively and varied skyline. 4 storeys, basements and dormered attics. 2 or 3 window wide fronts. Octagonal turreted and battlemented gatehouse. Houses have, pointed and 4 centred-arched doorways paired or set to right, some as recessed porches. 4 centred and square headed windows stone mullioned, some with tracery, rectangular through-storey bay windows and oriels; traceried balconies, buttresses, stepped gables and battlements. Decorative iron gates to vaulted carriageway. Ornate Gothic area railings. The rear to Dean's Yard plainer with stone mullioned windows and rectangular oriel-bays. Single storey rear extension to Nos. 2 and 3. Fine Gothic ironwork to areas on this front with the party boundary walls of Nos. 4 and 5 surmounted by ornate Gothic lamps, flanking gatehouse approach.
London Vol I; N Pevsner
Listing NGR: TQ2996479456
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208827
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London I - The Cities of London and Westminster, (1973)
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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