10, PALACE GATE SW7
10, PALACE GATE SW7
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357457
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- 10, PALACE GATE SW7
- Statutory Address:
- 10, PALACE GATE SW7
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357457
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- 10, PALACE GATE SW7
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10, PALACE GATE SW7
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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:
- 10, PALACE GATE SW7
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26175 79459
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/12/2012
TQ 2679 SW
38/18
9.3.82
PALACE GATE SW7
(east side)
No. 10
II*
Block of flats. 1937 by Wells Coates. Reinforced concrete, using an innovative system of frame
and monolithic reinforcement by Samuely and Hamaan, engineers, clad in concrete panels. A
symmetrical composition with a projecting, slightly concave, entrance block of seven storeys,
those above ground floor each with a two-room flat, three windows wide; larger rear block
connected by fully-glazed stairwell and containing eight storeys of flats, the central ones (four
per floor) arranged on a remarkable 3-2 plan with three bedrooms equalling the height of two
living rooms, accessed by a corridor and hallway on the second and fifth floors. Penthouse on
flat roof This so-called '3-2' or 'scissor' plan is particularly evident on the rear elevation, as is
Coates's special feature of alternating pairs of living rooms with bedrooms. Entrance canopy
altered. All windows metal casements. One of the most innovative blocks of flats built in
Britain in the 1930s, by one of the leading modern architects of the time. It marks the
culmination of Wells Coates' ideas on the planning of flats, with his first 3-2 block, and shows
technical advances in construction and the use of cladding materials.
Sources:
Architectural Review, vol. LXXXV, 1939, pp.173-84
Sherban Cantacuzino, Wells Coates, 1978
Listing NGR: TQ2617879456
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422486
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cantacuzino, S, Wells Coates a Monograph, (1978)
Architectural Review in Architectural Review, Vol. 85, (1939), 173-84
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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