11, DOWNING STREET SW1
11, DOWNING STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1356989
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 11, DOWNING STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- 11, DOWNING STREET SW1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1356989
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 11, DOWNING STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 11, DOWNING 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, DOWNING 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 30035 79935
Details
TQ 3079 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER DOWNING STREET, SW1 92/4 No. 11 14.1.70 I G.V.
Terraced town house. 1682 as part of Sir George Downing's new street and now incorporating one house and part of another, the remainder of which is occupied by No. 10 q.v.; considerably altered c.1723-35; refaced (with No. 10 q.v.) c.1766-75 by Kenton Couse and with early C.19 alterations; major reconstruction/restoration by Raymond Erith 1960-64. Darkened brick with stuccoed ground floor and sparse stone dressings, slate roof. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 4 windows wide. Doorway in 2nd bay from right, recessed panelled door and fanlight in stone architrave with shaped consoles to moulded cornice. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches. Stone plat bands between storeys and brick band below parapet with coping. Cast iron area railings with lampholder overthrow. Interior despite reconstruction retains fine front compartment staircase with carved bracket tread ends and 3 slender turned balusters per tread; Drawing Room a more restrained version of that at No. 10 with 2 fine statuary marble chimneypieces opposite each other; fine Dining Room by Soane of 1825-26, the ceiling design related to Soane's Lincoln's Inn Fields dining room with shallow fluted tent-dome flanked by narrow rectangles carried up to skylights; etc. No. 11 is the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Survey of London; Vol. XIV. History of the King's Works; Vol. VI.
Listing NGR: TQ3003579935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209517
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Margaret Westminster Part 3 Neighbourhood of Whitehall Volume 2:Volume 14 , Vol. 14, (1931)
Mordaunt Crook, J, Port, M H, The History of the Kings Works in The History of the Kings Works 1782-1851, Vol. 6, (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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