40 Devonshire Street
40, Devonshire Street W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356986
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 40 Devonshire Street
- Statutory Address:
- 40, Devonshire Street W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356986
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 40 Devonshire Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, Devonshire Street W1
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:
- 40, Devonshire 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 28637 81933
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 December 2022 to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 2881 NE
45/12
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
DEVONSHIRE STREET, W1 (south side)
No. 40
GV.
II
Town house. c.1910. Red brick with stone dressings, tiled roof. Arts and Crafts Georgian Revival. Two storeys and attic in pyramidal roof. Four windows wide. Doorway to left and two main ground floor windows in arcaded openings with keystones and linked by bold stone impost string, the door recessed in stone eared bolection architrave with cornice and with fanlight above with radial glazing. To left of doorway a small side window breaks the symmetry. All windows are recessed sashes, those on first floor are set above the spandrels of the ground floor arcade and have louvred shutters; their reveals are carried up with blind panels to the soffit of the leaded trough gutter; four half-dormers set back and breaking through the eaves. The house is raised on a tall stone plinth advanced to front and refaced in marble to provide planting boxes and returned as "skirting" to mews flank which has slightly projecting bold chimney breast with panelled stack and beyond basement openings, a circular ground floor window. Two first floor sashes a dormer; the rear has a canted bay.
Part of an early C.20 attempt by the Portland Estate to restore the domestic character of this area which had become too professional.
Listing NGR: TQ2863681931
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209492
- 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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