61 AND 62, WIMPOLE STREET W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357406
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 61 AND 62, WIMPOLE STREET W1
Statutory Address:: 61 AND 62, WIMPOLE STREET W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357406
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 61 AND 62, WIMPOLE STREET W1
Statutory Address 1:: 61 AND 62, WIMPOLE 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:: 61 AND 62, WIMPOLE 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 28545 81600

Details

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER WIMPOLE STREET W1 45/99 (West side) Nos 61 and 62 5.2.70 GV II Terraced town houses. c.1770-80 Portland Estate development. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floor; slate roofs. 4 storeys and basements. 3-window wide astylar fronts. Semicircular arched doorways adjoining to left and right, No 61 with stuccoed Doric columned porch and balustrade, and No 62 with spaced vermiculated rustications; panelled doors, side lights and fanlights in plain Venetian composition. Recessed sashes, those on ground floor of No 61 with vermiculated dressings, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Plat band ovejgrcwd floor stuccowork. Parapet with coping. No 61 has bracketed balustraded 1st floor balcony and No 62 has cast iron balconette on stucco brackets. Spear head area railings to No 61, No 62 with c.1900 railings, with tall urn- capped neo-Georgian standards. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2854681604

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Legacy System number:: 207677
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.