Grosvenor Hotel
GROSVENOR HOTEL, BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357254
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Grosvenor Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GROSVENOR HOTEL, BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357254
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Grosvenor Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROSVENOR HOTEL, BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD 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:
- GROSVENOR HOTEL, BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD 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 28847 79042
Details
TQ 2879 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD SW1 98/53 (south-east side) 9.1.70 Grosvenor Hotel
GV II*
Hotel. 1860 - 1. J. T. Knowles.Carving carried out by Daymond and Sons. Yellow brick, Bath stone. Shaped slate mansard roof. 5 storeys. 19 bays wide. End pairs of bays set forward slightly with pavilion roofs. Ground floor rusticated. Central entrance. Windows arched except to third floor. Gauged brick heads. First floor with pilasters between windows and carved spandrels with portrait heads and naturalistic foliage. Second floor windows corniced on carved consoles, those to pavilions pedimented. Fourth floor similar to first but lower; rich cornice; much carved decoration. Continuous first floor balcony and second floor balcony, both with naturalistic leaf decoration. One of the first buildings in London to use the French pavilion roof. London Vol I. N Pevsner.
Listing NGR: TQ2884779042
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208914
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London I - The Cities of London and Westminster, (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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