40, WAVERTON STREET W1, 40, HILL STREET W1

40, HILL STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357122
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 40, WAVERTON STREET W1, 40, HILL STREET W1
Statutory Address:: 40, HILL STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357122
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 40, WAVERTON STREET W1, 40, HILL STREET W1
Statutory Address 1:: 40, HILL STREET W1
Statutory Address 2:: 40, WAVERTON 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:: 40, HILL STREET W1
Statutory Address:: 40, WAVERTON 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 28488 80429

Details

TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HILL STREET, Wl 79/26 No 40 5.2.70 (Formerly listed as No 40 Waverton G.V. Street) Also known as No 40 Waverton Street. II Terraced town house. 1752-53 probably by John Balgrave with early C.20 alterations to rear. Multi-coloured stock brick, slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 4 windows wide. Entrance to right with mid C.19 stone Doric porch with balustraded parapet, square headed doorway with half glazed doors and fanlight. Recessed sash windows, no glazing bars, under flat gauged red brick arches. 1st floor plat band and sill band, cut by lengthening of windows, thin stone band between 3rd floor window heads forming rudimentary frieze beneath moulded stone cornice, parapet with coping. Cast iron balconettes to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with flambé torch finials. Interior much altered late C.19 and early C.20 in neo-Georgian and neo-Adam manner but retaining front compartment staircase etc. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2848880429

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Legacy System number:: 210192
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)

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