Marlborough House With Enclosing Forecourt Walls and East Service/stable Wing
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE WITH ENCLOSING FORECOURT WALLS AND EAST SERVICE/STABLE WING, PALL MALL SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1331701
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Marlborough House With Enclosing Forecourt Walls and East Service/stable Wing
- Statutory Address:
- MARLBOROUGH HOUSE WITH ENCLOSING FORECOURT WALLS AND EAST SERVICE/STABLE WING, PALL MALL SW1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1331701
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Marlborough House With Enclosing Forecourt Walls and East Service/stable Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARLBOROUGH HOUSE WITH ENCLOSING FORECOURT WALLS AND EAST SERVICE/STABLE WING, PALL MALL 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:
- MARLBOROUGH HOUSE WITH ENCLOSING FORECOURT WALLS AND EAST SERVICE/STABLE WING, PALL MALL 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 29460 80101
Details
TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PALL MALL SW1 81/52 Marlborough House with enclosing forecourt 5.2.70 walls and east service/ stable wing. - I Town mansion and genuine "hotel particulier". 1707-11 by Sir Christopher Wren for the first Duke of Marlborough with internal alterations by Sir William Chambers, 1771-74, and further alter- ations and extensions north and east by Sir James Pennethorne, 1861-63 for Edward, Prince of Wales. Red brick with stone dressings and quoin pilasters, the 2 attic storeys by Pennethorne as also the stable and outbuilding ranges to east. 13 bays wide with heightened flanking wings to forecourt and porte cochere by Pennethorne to centre. The forecourt is enclosed by ornamental boundary wall terminating on north axis in a handsome architectural composition with arched recess and pediments. 13 bay garden front with slightly advanced 3 bay wings. Important interior with original saloon flanked by staircase frescoed by Laguerrre, chimney pieces by Chambers, late C18 work for the 3rd Duke of Marlborough and when the Crown acquired the House in 1817 and subsequently for the Prince of Wales etc. History of the King's Works London, Vol I, N Pevsner. R. C. H. M. Wren Society volumes Sir William Chambers: John Harris etc .
Listing NGR: TQ2946080101
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422684
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London I - The Cities of London and Westminster, (1973)
Harris, J, Sir William Chambers Knight of the Polar Star, (1970)
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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