PITZHANGER MANOR (PUBLIC LIBRARY)

PITZHANGER MANOR (PUBLIC LIBRARY), WALPOLE PARK W5

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1358808
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: PITZHANGER MANOR (PUBLIC LIBRARY)
Statutory Address:: PITZHANGER MANOR (PUBLIC LIBRARY), WALPOLE PARK W5

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Date:: 1999-08-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1358808
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: PITZHANGER MANOR (PUBLIC LIBRARY)
Statutory Address 1:: PITZHANGER MANOR (PUBLIC LIBRARY), WALPOLE PARK W5

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:: PITZHANGER MANOR (PUBLIC LIBRARY), WALPOLE PARK W5

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Ealing (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ1757780465

Details

1. 5010 TQ 18 SE 2/60 24.2.50

WALPOLE PARK Ealing Green W5 Pitzhanger Manor (Public Library)

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2. South wing of 1770 by George Dance the Younger. Remainder by Sir John Soane. 1802. Wing, plain, contains dining room and billiard room, both in Adam style. Central block, 2 storeys, 3 bays with grand detached Ionic order in Portland stone, statues above. Ground storey windows, round headed double hung sashed. Central entrance door with fanlight and radiating bars. Windowless attic with roundels left and right. Square centre panel. Portland stone balustrade above. Two storey, one bay wing right and single storey wing further right projecting at end, Ionic pilasters, dentil cornice. This was Soane's own country house 1801-11 and thus of great importance. The principal interiors are the entrance hall, staircase, parlour and breakfast room, the latter 2 little altered. The garden front is also of interest. Three bays, with incised pattend stone pilasters, 'Chinese' balcony screen, and balustraded parapet.

Listing NGR: TQ1757780465

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Legacy System number:: 201062
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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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.