12, LANGFORD PLACE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1360810
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-2002
List Entry Name:: 12, LANGFORD PLACE
Statutory Address:: 12, LANGFORD PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1360810
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-2002
List Entry Name:: 12, LANGFORD PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: 12, LANGFORD PLACE

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:: 12, LANGFORD PLACE

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 26421 83306

Details

1900/0/10296 LANGFORD PLACE 18-JUN-02 St John's Wood 12

GV II

12 Langford Place, St John's Wood.

House, former sculptor's studio complex, attached to the east side of 14 Langford Place. C.1882 by Mr Tall, architect, for the sculptor John Adams-Acton RA (1830-1910). MATERIALS: Kentish ragstone ashlar facing with Portland stone dressings, wooden barge-boards, slate roof. PLAN: slender deep plan to right of adjoining house with projecting single storey bay with glazed canopy. EXTERIOR: sharp twin gables with fretted barge-boards, with pointed narrow windows within. All front windows are leaded, with decorative margins of coloured glass. Two-light square windows at first floor. Gabled ground floor projection with curved glazed hood over triple trefoil-headed lights. Stone inscription tablet below with text from St John's Gospel xvii, 21: 'That they all may be one as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent me'. Narrow link to left, with balcony at first floor level. Narrow arched window in stone surround to right of projecting bay. To right, modern ground floor with arched opening, replacing former recessed window. Above, to first floor, panels of herringbone brick beneath an arcade of arched windows with decorative leadwork, with rectangular lights above. Glazed dormer window to side of eastern gable. INTERIOR: not inspected, believed to be considerably altered but retaining some decorative features. HISTORY: this adjunct to the neighbouring house, formerly called 'Sunnyside' was built in c.1882 for the sculptor John Adams-Acton. Adams-Acton was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and is remembered today for his statues of Gladstone (Blackburn), of John Wesley (City Road, Finsbury), his effigy of Cardinal Manning (Westminster Cathedral) and the Cruickshank memorial in St Paul's Cathedral. The studio complex included carving and painting rooms, and a long top-lit sculpture gallery. The actress Sarah Bernhardt is said to have tried to rent the house at some point. Listed for its very distinctive exterior and interesting historical associations.

SOURCES: A.M.W. Sterling, Victorian Sidelights: from the Papers of the late Mrs Adams-Acton (1954), esp. 167-8; Hampstead and Highgate Express 29 August 1986, 8.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 489572
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Sterling, A M W, Victorian Sidelights: From the Papers of the Late Mrs Adams-Acton, (1954), 167-168
'Hampstead and Highgate Express' in 29 August, (1986), 8

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.