Melbourne House (A1 to A15)
MELBOURNE HOUSE (A1 TO A15), ALBANY W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1357178
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Melbourne House (A1 to A15)
- Statutory Address:
- MELBOURNE HOUSE (A1 TO A15), ALBANY W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1357178
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Melbourne House (A1 to A15)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELBOURNE HOUSE (A1 TO A15), ALBANY 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:
- MELBOURNE HOUSE (A1 TO A15), ALBANY 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 29263 80548
Details
TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALBANY (Piccadilly) W1
70/11 Melbourne House 24.2.58 (A1 to A15) GV I
Town Mansion, 1771-76 by Sir William Chambers, altered by Henry Holland 1802-03. Brown brick, slate roof. 3 storeys and basement, and dormered attic. 7 bay front in rhythm 2:3:2, the centre 3 bays pedimented. Central stone Tuscan columned porch. Basement windows with keystone reaching up to plat band at ground floor level; semi-circular arched ground floor windows in similarly arched recesses with keystones reaching up to first floor plat band and moulded string courses at impost level with arcade effect; windows on upper floors with architraves, those on piano nobile with cornices and the central window pedimented - all windows revealed sashes without glazing bars. 1st floor sill course, crowning cornice and blocking course. 2 shallow bows flank rear elevation. Interior retains Chambers' flying stone staircase with wrought iron balustrade and the right hand rear room on 1st floor retains a plaster ceiling to his design. Otherwise altered as apartments by Holland and subsequently. Rare survival of town mansion.
Survey of London: vol XXXI Sir William Chambers, John Harris
Listing NGR: TQ2926380548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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